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ODE 

By Dr. E. H. Wells. 

Read at the Laying of the Corner Stone of Wilson Administration Building, 

April 22, 1907. 

Sketch of Baylor College for fifty-six years of trials and triumphs. Mention made 
if all the presidents from Dr. Horace Clark to Dr. J. C. Hardy. 

In this bright land it seemed that Freedom reigned 
From first, in air, in earth, and bounding main. 
Man the infection caught, as o'er the plains 
He roamed in untrammelled course, or carved 
New paths of commerce thro the trackless woods; 
Struggled for mastery with the rugged mountains, 
Traced the devious streams from crystal fountains 
To Mexico Gulf, or tried the broader sea, 

When from out the realm of Latin darkness, 
First gleamed the rising star of Texas, 
Education in the West broke her bonds; 
And a league of defense, then cemented 
In self -same blood our common heroes shed, 
Was formed, to be thro all time perpetuate. 
Chief among the charges which Texans brought 
'Gainst Mexico, embued with Spanish thought, 
Was this — they could no guarantee obtain, 
That they some scheme of common schools might frame. 

Spirit of conscience-freedom, unsurpassed, 
So swayed tho souls of those of higher caste, 
Th' enforced compliance with State-church regime 
Repugnant was, and galling in extreme. 

The Anglo-Saxon thought was dominant 
And on the fundamental law engrafted 
Eternal freedom from all kinds of shackles, 
Whether of body, intellect, or soul. 
So constituted, the nascent nation 
Threw down the gauntlet of an endless war 
Gloriously begun at Alamo, Goliad, 
And San Jacinto, but still to be waged, 
Relentlessly, we hope, till time no more shall be, 
And man the promised millenium shall see. 

It had been strange, if in that strife so wild 
Were not found the folk, first in derision, styled 
Baptists: A name in time illustrious grown 
Because of conscience-battles fought and won. 

'Tis true, they then were but a feeble band 
In numbers — but in faith and courage grand. 
Tyron, Huckins, Baylor, and many more 
As tried and true, though to fame unknown, 
Had glorious visions of a nation — 
Vaster far than to faithful Abram shown — 
Which should be built upon what foundation 
They and compatriots should see were hewn. 

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These digged deeper, did broader basis lay, 
Than they and children's childrens could essay 
To rear suitable superstructure on, 
And boldy launched a university. 
To the fledgling each good man sought to give 
The other's name: But Baylor's chanced to live. 

'Tis true that God's people in all sections 
Were inspired by like fervor and emprise, 
And at the core of all plans the seed thought 
Of Christian education implanted 
Grew, and various fruitage bore, but good; 
Though equal permanence was not assured. 
Three score years have scarce sufficed to decide 
Which of all schools were fittest to survive. 

Forty years of varying sunshine and shade, 
At Independence our Baylor stayed — 
A town of hallowed memories. 'Twas forsooth 
Foster-mother to Baptist nursling schools 
As well as new-born Texas liberties. 
There a glorious line ot Presidents 
Securely guarded and guided our girls: 
Half the time the scholarly Horace Clark; 
Then with varying terms, Fitzgerald, Graves, 
Fontaine, Royall and the godly Luther. 

Then came the renaissance: the State progressed: 
Re-adjustments to changed conditions pressed: 
The on-rush of modern schools, backed by gold, 
To build, equip and endow, caught up all 
Upon the crest of a tremendous wave 
That was either to engulf the struggling, 
Or bear some favored ones to distinction. 

With Baylor College this a crisis was, 
Like that through which many a human life 
And that of nation, too, is called to pass: 
When fate seems trembling in unsteady poise, 
Tipping this way to death, that to higher life- 
In the mad race for place, that would be distinct, 
Our noble trustee-fathers, led by Smith, Link, 
And Law, a sainted trio, for a time 
Over-taxed their strength and their people's too. 
They laid down their lives, but the College grew, 
Though dark and wintry days obscured the sun 
Of prosperity, and almost of hope. 
But the courtly Eager took up the loads, 
Unpropitious though the auguries were, 
And bore them right bravely 'gainst many odds, 
Till shifted for a time to his successor. (Interpolation: Dr 

E. H. Wells, the writer of this, who was President 

1894-5 and 1895-6.) 
Time would not suffice due mention to make 
Of the scores of godly men and women, 
Who dared their toil, health and substance to stake 
On Baylor's success, through good and ill omen 
These wrought patiently, unselfishly, well; 
And though unhonored and unsung by man, 
Some day, sometime, celestial tongues shall tell 
How much they served, and God their crowns shall plan. 

The struggling colonies had their Valley Forge — 
So Baylor knew a time that tried men's souls. 
To bear is harder far than 'tis to do; 
To wait, than move. Burden-bearers, to you, 
Thank God! — a way of deliverance He showed; 
His people prospered, and money inflowed 
To rid the laboring Baptist Schools of debt, 
And turn back the threatening tide of death. 

This sketch were not complete and true, 
Without due mention made of one 



Page four 



To whom an inspiration came 
Like that each master-builder feels 

When first there flits across his brain 
The concept of some mighty scheme; 

Then not content alone to dream 
Proceeds in faith and strength to frame. 

So Elli Moore, with wide-ope eyes, 
And heart aglow with love of girls, 

Had a day-dream, with holy flame 
Of faith illumined and made plain. 

It was to her a guiding pyre, 
By day bright cloud, by night a fire. 

Years passed, and with them fears and pains; 
Toil unrequited; back-sets; delays, 
Desert-wanderings. Still, on manna fed, 
She at last to Pisgah's summit sped. 

Pledges of success realities became, 
Ard Texas' Mary Lyon soared to fame! 

Strange, but true, the rearing of Cottage-Home 
Has but the sooner caused this house to come: 

For the quieting of distressing cries 
Creates a crying need for more supplies. 

And now to God, our Father in heaven, 
Give praise, that in His own good time He's given 
Emancipation, yea, expansion, even. 

This hour new joy has come to all our hearts, 
But to none more than to Doctor Wilson, 
Who stands to-day the accredited head and 
Manager of our sole female college. 

Full many a girl has felt the touch divine 
Within thy sacred precincts. Baylor mine, 

And in her rapt soul new-visions were rife 
Of a broader and more beautiful life; — 

And when to woman grown, — her school-flags furled — 
Has sallied forth to bless and help the world. 

To most the noblest of all lots has fallen — 
A coronation, approved of heaven — 

To be queen in a realm of love, a home; 
The country's pillar, and true basal stone; 

Others have seen expand and daily rise 
Broad fields of service, wherein to exercise 

Their various talents; to teach or paint or sing, 
Or to hungry souls the bread of life to bring. 

Now when this new building, grown apace, 
Shall rear its stately walls toward heaven, 
Spirit of Baylor awake, and with wings 
Unfettered, soar to where true wisdom flings 
About the summits of female endeavor, 
God's pure air and sweetest light forever. 

Refine your crude matter, uplift the poor; 
Polish your rough diamonds: open the door 
To your treasures of beauty, truth and good, 
That all may obtain, whoever would. 
Up there in that empyrean, serenely fair, 
Above the lower strata of murky air, 
You may fitly achieve the psalmist's plea, 
As he dreamed how splendid a palace might be, 
And sang, as he prayed, in most joyful tones, 
'That our daughters may be as corner-stones.' 



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Page seven 



Preface 



The material for the publication of this book has been collected 
from various histories, catalogs, quarterlies, annuals, and personal 
contributions through the efforts of Mrs. Elli Moore Townsend. 

Realizing that after seventy-five years of real usefulness to both 
church and State, Baylor College is worthy of having her record given 
to the public, she has tried to present such historical facts, biographical 
sketches, events, and reminiscences that will prove not only entertain- 
ing and interesting but a source of information and inspiration to ail 
friends of Christian education. 



There will be coming to Baylor hundreds and thousands in the 
years hence and if they are to know the romantic history of Baylor 
College, now is the time to gather the facts, the memories of pioneers, 
and all that makes her a chapter apart in the history of education in 
Texas. 



It should be thoroughly understood that this book has been pre- 
pared by those busy with many duties and a most charitable judge- 
ment is asked for any mistakes or omissions that may occur. 

On account of having had to change printers, engravers and edi- 
tors several times pictures have been misplaced, articles lost, and 
changes were made necessary at the last minute. 



Page eight 



PART I. 

Ode | 

Dedication b !, 

Preface q 

Contents ^ 

Introductory Yt 

Baylor at Independence - ■-- |« 

Presidents at Independence i r 

Historical Chart Baylor U l» 

Baylor at Waco jrl 

Presidents of Baylor at Waco lj 

Historical Chart Baylor College iy 

Baylor at Belton ^ 

Presidents at Belton ^ 

Cottage Home and Managers - ** 

Chart of Texas Baptist Schools 

Our Baptist Schools »» 

Founders and Presidents - £* 

R. E. B. Baylor and Relatives 51 

Presidents and Families ^ 

Some of Baylor's Trustees - j>? 

Some Teachers of the Past "6 

Baylor's Donors - ^ 

The Loan Fund ----- J° 

Contributors to Baylor's Loan Fund J4 

Baylor's Daughters ?5 

Baylor Missionaries - ku 

Baylor Families 81 

RELATED HISTORY 

Mission Dates and Contributions of Baptists to National Life 92 

Southern Baptist Convention Board and Officers - 9o 

Seventy-Five Years Southern Baptist Achievements 94 

Woman's Mission Union - 9o 

Texas Pioneer Missionaries - 9b 

1920 Missionaries — <** 

Baptist Schools in the United States - - ; — - 9 -> 

How Southern Baptists Can Meet the Demand of the Reconstruction 

Period Through Her Schools Ijjj 

Southern Baptist Education Board 102 

Mountain Schools JJJ J 

The Seventy-Five Million Campaign 1-JJJ 

The 1920 World Mission and Ridgecrest Conference 107 

Education in Texas - J-J-J 

Texas Baptist Schools 11° 

Appreciations Ill 

Digest of Religious Activities in Texas Baptist Schools 11:, 

Meeting the Needs of Students in State Schools Ill 

First Baptist Student Conference in Texas 114 

Texas Baptist Encampments 11* 

Baptist Women Mission Workers H° 

GLIMPSES THROUGH THE PASSING YEARS. 

117 
Foreword - j J ' 

Baylor's First Home jl * 

Baylor College Faculty 1851 J-* ' 

Baylor College in the Sixties J-^J 

Another Picture of Baylor at Independence l£j 

After Thirty Years j^g 

Baylor at Belton j£jj 

Beginning Ruth Stribling Hall j^° 

Notes from Class Records and Organizations l^ 

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Celebrations — Special Days and Dates 112 

Personalities - 151 

Poems 162 

Essays and Messages 172 

In Memoriam - 181 

Memorials 189 

Reminiscences - 191 

PART II, THE YEAR 19-20. 

Preface ...213 

Dedication 214 

Our Greatest Needs 215 

Baylor College Trustees 216 

Officers of Administration 217 

College Faculty '- 220 

Student Assistants 223 

Fine Arts Faculty - 224 

Academy Faculty 227 

A Message to the Seniors 229 

Gladys Roach, Senior President 230 

The Senior Class 231 

The Junior Class ■- 243 

The Sophomore Class 250 

Freshman and Senior Academy Class Presidents 257 

Societies 25 S 

History of Student Government 2 63 

Religious Activities at Baylor 267 

Three Arts Club and Officers 271 

Officers of Athletic Council and Clubs 273 

May Queen 276, 

Locality Clubs 277 

Publications of Students 28 S 

Officers of Student's League 290 

The Jubilee Class and Baylor's Endowment 291 

Charter Day Programs 29 2 

Freshmen Scholarship Holders 293 

PART III. 

Dedication to Dr. J. C. Hardy 296 

Foreword to Baylor's Jubilee 298 

Speakers at Jubilee 29 9 

Baylor College Diamond Jubilee 300 

The Golden Jubilee Class (By Emma C. King) 303 

The Diamond Jubilee Class (By Paul C. Porter) 303 

Ihe Baylors 304 

Impressions of the Jubilee Commencement 304-6 

The Threefold Problems of Spiritual Leadership (By Dr. L. R. 

Scarborough 307 

Student League Appeal 308-11 

Baylor's Supreme Need 312 

The Alumnae Association 314 

Addendum Jubilee 315 

Baylor College Alumnae Roster 316-46 

The Department of Fine Arts 347 

Dedication to Dr. Lovette 34S 

Short History of Fine Arts Department 350 

Fine Arts Building 352 

Facts About Folks : 353 

Fine Arts Alumnae Roster 354 

Page ten 



INTRODUCTORY 






Gen. Zachary 
Taylor 



Gen. Sam Houston 



Rev. James 
Taylor 



Rev. James 
Huekins 



The year nineteen hundred and twenty has a fourfold significance 
as it marks the seventy-fifth aniversary of four important events in 
Educational, Church, State, and National affairs. General Zachary 
Taylor had begun the marshaling of the hosts of the United States ar- 
my to protect the boundary of Texas on the eve of the war between the 
United States and Mexico. General Sam Houston had defeated de- 
luded Mexico, gained the independence of Texas and secured its an- 
nexation. The Southern Baptist Convention was organized in Augusta, 
Georgia, and through James B. Tavlor was sending out the first for- 
eign missionaries. James Huekins had come to Texas and was an im- 
portant leader in raising funds for the establishment of Baylor Univer- 
sity at Independence. 

What a quartet of representatives and contemporaries! How sig- 
nificant in the romantic history of the "Lone Star' that patriotism and 
education should have met, that missions and civilization should have 
Embraced each other! How true it is that "The Lights of Education 
Religion, Statehood, and Patriotism are kindred fires, kindled at the 
same celestial altar and that our fathers caugnt those blended lights 
from the skies, long did they watch their rising, their widening, 
their brightening. Long may it be our happy lot to walk m the beams 
of their effulgence until the night of time has dropped down upon earth 
and the Lights of Education, Religion, Statehood, and Patriotism are 
lost in the great blaze of eternity." 

Baylor has emerged from a setting so replete with heroic deeds; 
from a 'period so alluring that it drew forth the greatest statesmen, 
soldiers, educators, and religious leaders of the country with the am- 
bition that "great and good men write 'Holiness to the Lord on the 
foundation stones and make Texas the 'brightest star in the galaxy of 
states,' and in the very year when the great achievement of annexation 
was consummated and the Republic of Texas was no more. 

Baylor and Texas together have risen to heights planned, 
dreamed and sacrificed for by the same heroic leaders. Our heroes m 
*'ar were the same great men who laid the foundation ot education in 
Texas; the same men who secured the first dollar for free schools ever 
placed in the Texas treasury and gave the first one thousand dollars 
to Baylor University. 

Baylor's foundation has been laid in seventy-five years of pray- 
ers and hopes and enthusiasm. Those formative years were years of 
war and changes, but all that was vital has remained and she enters 
upon a new phase of history strengthened, not only by a vision of the 
future, but by the heroic deeds of her founders 



Page eleven 



BA YLOR A T INDEPENDENCE 

In 1839, when the Texas Republic was only three years old; at a 
time when Indians, Mexicans, and Americans were on the war path 
over our great state, when stealing horses, killing and scalping citizens, 
and carrying off children were common experiences when the men were 
compelled to declare themselves Minute Men ready to check the depre- 
dations of the enemy, a little band of Baptists met at Washington-on- 
the-Brazcs and formulated a plan of missions for Texas. The Alamo. 
San Jose, Concepcion are familiar names in Texas history but equally 
well known should be the name of old Washington church which was 
the birth place of missionary effort from which has developed the 
unique and remarkable system of Christian education in Texas. The 
entire world is now encircled with the influence of that small and al- 
most unknown beginning of missions in the Republic of Texas. 

Hon. James R. Jenkins, Rev. A. Buffington, and Deacon H. R. 
Cartmell constituted the committee from Washington church to inaug- 
urate the missionary movement in Texas. This committee issued a stir- 
ring appeal to the Home Mission Boerd of New York and as a result 
Rev. James Huckins and Rev. William M. Tryon were sent as mission- 
aries and Dr. Jesse Mercer of Georgia made a gift of $2500 to the 
cause. About the same time R. E. B. Baylor came to Texas as teacher, 
lawyer, soldier, and preacher. The coming of these three educated 
leaders meant much to Texas Baptists. 

At a meeting of Union Association at the La Grange, or Clear 
Creek church, in Fayette county, October 7, 1841, the first representa- 
tive body of Baptists that had ever assembled on Texas soil, the forma- 
tion of an education society was recommended. Mexican invasion in- 
terfered with further effort until 18 4 3 when the Texas Baptist Educa- 
tion Society was organized. Very little is recorded bevond the organiza- 
tion of the Society until William M. Tryon and R. E. B. Baylor were 
appointed to prepare a charter and secure its passage through the Leg- 
islature for the establishment of a Baptist University. At the presen- 
tation of the charter, Baylor suggested that Tryon should be the name 
of the University but Tryon filled in the blank with the name of Baylor. 
Application was made and the charter was issued by the ninth Con- 
gress of the Republic of Texas and approved by President Anson Jones 
February 1, 1845, at Washington-on-the-Brazos. 

The charter trustees were R. E. B. Baylor, J. G. Thomas, A. G. 
Haynes, A. C. Horton, James L. Lester, R. B. Jarmon, James Huckins, 
Nelson Kavanaugh, O. Drake, Eli Mercer, Aaron Shannon, James L. 
Farquhar, Robert S. Armstead, William Tyron and E. W. Taylor. The 
charter provided for a Preparatory Department and a Female Depart- 
ment, and such other dependent Institutions as they, the trustees, 
should deem necessary. 

A committee was appointed to receive proposals for the location 
of the University. There was submitted to the Committee a subscrip- 
tion of three thousand five hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty- 
five cents from Travis, five thousand four hundred and seventy dollars 
and seventy-five cents from Huntsville, four thousand seven hundred 
and twenty-five dollars from Grimes Prairie and seven thousand nine 
hundred and twenty-five dollars from Independence. The selection of 
a place was made by ballot which resulted in ten votes for Independ- 
ence and one for Huntsville. 

Page twelve 



Independence, in Washington County, was located on the main 
stage road leading from Houston to Austin, and was in the early days 
of Texas a center of wealth, refinement and education and was unsur- 
passed in natural beauty. 

On January 12, 1846, the Board met at Independence and elected 
Henry L. Graves President of the University, hut he did not enter upon 
his duties until February 4, 1847. In the meantime, the Preparatory 
Department was opened in an old building, with Henry F. Gillette as 
teacher At the meeting of the Board, Richard Ellis was appointed to 
solicit funds in Texas, and R . E. B. Baylor and William M. Tryon were 
appointed to solicit both in Texas and beyond the limits of the State. 
These pioneer agents raising funds in the wilds of Texas found it no 
easy task. It meant days of weary horseback riding to find the scat- 
tered Baptists whose contributions were not always cash, but were gen- 
erously made in wild lands, cattle, dried hides, mustang ponies and 
personal service. R. E. B. Baylor gave the school its first one thous- 
and dollars. James Huckins was able to secure thirty thousand dollars 
in notes and thirteen hundred in cash, the largest cash donation being 
two hundred dollars from Morgan L. Smith. 

During the administration of the first president the school was 
co-educational but upon the acceptance of the presidency by Dr. Rufus 
C. Burleson in 1851, it was decided to separate the male and female 
departments. Professor Horace Clark was made principal of the fe- 
male department. The two departments were to be continued under 
the same Board of Trustees. 

In 1857 a Law Department was added with R. E. B. Baylor, R. T. 
Wheeler and W. R. Rogers as professors. Some of Texas' ablest law- 
yers and statesmen received their education in the early days at old 
Inedpendence. The department was discontinued during the Civil War, 
reopened in 1866 and after a few years discontinued. 

In 18 61 Dr. Burleson resigned as President of the University to 
become President of the Waco Classical School which was then changed 
to Waco University. Rev. George W. Baines Sr. was elected to succeed 
Dr. Burleson at independence. On January 1, 1864, Rev. William 
Carey Crane accepted the presidency. Professor Clark was granted 
a leave of absence from the female department and Professor B. S. 
Fitzgerald was appointed in his place. 

The Female Department was severed from Baylor University 
at Independence September 22, 1866 and approved by the Legislature 
September 25, 1866, to be held and controlled by a separate Board of. 
Trustees under the name of Baylor Female College. Dr. Clark reas- 
sumed his duties and became the President of Baylor College which 
position he held until 1871. Rev. H. L. Graves was elected as his suc- 
cessor, but served only one year. Col W. W. Fontaine served from 
1872 until 1875. Dr. William Royall succeeded him and retired in 
1878. Dr. J. H. Luther then became the last president of the college 
during her history at Independence. 

Dr. Crane held the Presidency of the University at Independence 
until 1885 when he was succeeded by Rev. Reddin Andrews. 

In the year 1885 the subject of the removal of Baylor University 
and Baylor Female College from Independence was placed before the 
Baptist State Convention at the thirty-eighth annual session held at 
Lampasas. The Convention decided in favor of remoA^al with the re- 
sult that Waco and Baylor Universities were consolidated at Waco, the 
name Baylor University being retained and Baylor Female College was 
located at Belton. 



Page thirteen 



Presidents of Baylor University at 
Independence 





Henry Lee Graves 
D. D. LL. D. 



Rufus C. Burleson 
D. D. LL. D. 



- — 



Rev. G. W. Baines 



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Baylor^University at Independence 



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William Carey 

Crane 
D. D. LL. D. 



Reddin Andrews 
D. D. 



C. H. Wedemeyer 
A. M. 
Vice-President 



Page fourteen 



Presidents of Baylor College at 
Independence 






B. S. Fitzgerald 
A. M. 



Horace Clark 
LL. D. 



"W. "W. Fontaine 
A. M. 




Baylor College at Independence 




Following Dr. Hor- 
ace Clark Dr. Henry 
Lee Graves who was 
not only first presi- 
dent of Baylor Uni- 
versity but was also 
third president of 
Baylor College. See 
first picture on the 
preceding page. 




William Royall 
D. D. 



John Hill Luther 
D. D. 



Page fifteen 



HISTORICAL CHART 



Baylor University 



PRESIDENTS 



NOTEWORTHY EVENTS 



H. L. Graves,. .. .1845. .Baylor University founded at Independence. 
D. D., LL. D. 

1850. .Woman's Department organized. 

I 

R. C. Burleson. ... 1851- -Dr. Horace Clark made Principal of Woman's De- 
D. D., LL. D. | partment. 



G. W. Baines Sr. . . 1861.. 



Wm. Carey Crane 1864 
D. D. LL. D. | 



1861 . .Waco University, co-edu- 
I cational, founded by Presi- 
dent Rufus C. Burleson. 



1866 . .Woman's Depart- 
I ment organized 
under separate 
charter as Baylor 
Female College, 
Professor B. S. 
Fitzgerald, Presi- 
j dent, 1866-67. 



Reddin Andrews, .. 1885 
D. D. I 



R. C. Burleson, . . 
D. D., LL. D. 



1886 



. Baptist General Association 
organized. 



■..Baylor University at Waco 
placed under the control 
of the consolidated Baptist 
General Convention of Tex- 
as. 



J. C. Lattimore, M. S., Chairman. .1897 
of Faculty I , 



Oscar H. Cooper, LL. D. 



1899 

! 
I 



Samuel Palmer Brooks, A. M. 
LL. D. 



. 1902 
I 

1903 •• Medical Department, Dallas 

I 

1905 School of Pharmacy, Dallas 

| 

19 05 Theological Seminary added. 



19 07 Theological Seminary separated 
| from the University on recommen- 
dation of the Board of Trustees and 
by vote of the Baptist General Con- 
vention. 

1910. .Theological Seminary removed to 
Fort Worth, Texas. 

I 
1918.. School of Dentistry, Dallas. 



Page sixteen 



Baylor at Waco 



Baylor University opened at Waco in 1886 with Dr. Rufus C. Bur- 
leson as President. Dr. Burleson had served as President of Baylor 
University at Independence from 1851 to 1861 when he resigned to ac- 
cept the presidency of the Waco Classical School which was then in 
charge of Judge J. C. West. The name of this school was then changed 
to Waco University, the first co-educational school in the South and 
the second in America. Waco University was under the direction of the 
Trinity River Baptist Association and in 1868 passed under the control 
of the Baptist General Association. 

In 1886, Waco University at Waco under the direction of the Bap- 
tist General Association and Baylor University at Independence under 
the direction of the Baptist State Convention were united and named 
Baylor University and as the two denominational organizations con- 
solidated under the name of "The Baptist General Convention of Tex- 
as," Baylor University at Waco, Texas, was placed and has since re- 
mained under control of that body. 

Dr. Burleson served as president of the University until 1897, at 
which time he was made President Emeritus and relieved of the active 
duties of the presidency. He was succeeded by Professor J. C. Latti- 
more as Chairman of the Faculty. Oscar H. Cooper LL. D. became 
president in 1899 and was succeeded by Samuel Palmer Brooks A. M. 
LL. D. in 1902. 

The school of Medicine which was organized in 1900 at Dallas be- 
came a part of Baylor University in 1903 and is now known as the Medi- 
cal Department of Baylor University. In 1905 a School of Pharmacy 
was added and in 1918 the Board of Trustees purchased the building 
formerly occupied by the Medical College of the Southern Methodist 
University in Dallas to be used for a College of Dentistry. It is the 
only recognized school of dentistry between New Orleans and the Pa- 
cific coast south of St. Louis and Kansas City. 

A theological Seminary was added to the University in 1905 but 
upon recommendation of the Board of Trustees and by vote of the Bap- 
tist General Convention of Texas, it was separated from the University 
in 1907. It was finally moved to Ft. Worth and is now known as the 
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

As a result of the Seventy-five Million Campaign conducted by 
Southern Baptists, Baylor University will be able to secure much need- 
ed equipment. Modern dormitories are to be constructed as necessi- 
ty demands. The Board of Trustees has authorized the re-opening of 
a Law Department, the inauguration of a department of Business Ad- 
ministration, a Department of Agriculture and courses in Journalism. 
A farm has been purchased to be used in connection with the Depart- 
ment of Agriculture. "The purpose of Baylor University is the same as 
that expressed by the invincible men who founded it; 'To meet fully the 
requirements of existing conditions and to be susceptible of enlarge- 
ment and development to meet the demands of all ages to come." 



Page seventeen 



Presidents of Baylor at Waco 





J. C. Lattimore 
M. S. 



Rufus C. Burleson, D. D. 1,1,. D. 





C H. Cooper 
L.L.. D. 



P. Brooks 
LL. D. 



Page eighteen 



HISTORICAL CHART 

BAYLOR COLLEGE 





INDEPENDENCE 


1845-1886 




PRESIDENTS. 




EVENTS. 






1X45 
1 1 


Charter granted by Republic of Texas, 
February 1. 






118461 
1 1 


Preparatory Department opened May 18, 
H. F. Gillette, teacher. 


11 


L. Graves, D.D..L.L.D 


. |1847| 




R. 


C. Burleson, D.D..L.L.D. . . . 


. 118511 
1 1 


Woman's Department Separated. Dr. Hor- 
ace Clark, Principal. 


Rev. G. W. Baines, Sr 


. |1861| 




W 


illjam Carey Crane, D.D..L.L.D. |1864| 




B. 


S. Fitzgerald 


11866! 
1 1 

1 i 


Baylor Female College severed from Bay- 
lor University, Sep. 2 2. Separate charter 
granted Baylor Female College Sept. 2 5. 


H< 


u-ace Clark, D.D., L.E.D 


. |1867| 


11. 


L, Graves, D.D..L.L.D 


. 118711 


W 


W. Fontaine, A.M 


. |1872| 


W 


illiani Royall, D. D 


. |1875] 










.1. H. Luther, D.D 


|18-7~8.| 




BELTON 




1886 


J. 


H. Luther. D.D 


. ,1S86. 


Opened at Belton, Sept. 13. 


P. 


H. Eager, A.M 


. ilSC'l] 








11893! 


Cottage Home Inaugurated, Sept. 6. 


E. 


H. Wells, A.M..M.D 


. |1894| 
|1895| 


Celebrated Golden Jubilee 


W 


A. Wilson, A.M., D.D 


. il896! 








119041 


Cottage Home permanent building erected. 






1907, 


Wilson Administration building. 






1909 ; 


First Home Coming. 


E. 


G. Townsend, D.D 


. |1911| 


University Affiliation. 


J. 


C. Hardy, A.M..E.E.D 


. .11912! 


Second Home Coming. 






11913 1 


Addition of fourth floor of Luther Hall. 






11914! 


Ferguson Hall. 






|1915! 

1 1 


Cottage Home Consolidated with College. 
Main Building named Ely-Pepper Hall. 



|1916| 

11917!" 



Third Home Coming 
"~B — 



Baylor reinterred on campus, 



R. E. 

May 6. 
Independence Bell brought to campus. 



! 1 9 1 8 i 



First woman trustee — Mrs. H. L. Kokernot 
Student League organized 



119191 Heard Hall. 



1 192 1 Wells Science Hall. 
Burt Hall. 
Ruth Stribling Hall. 
Diamond Jubilee. 



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Baylor at Belton 



At a meeting of the Baptist State Convention held at Lampasas 
in October 1885, a committee on the Consolidation of Educational In- 
terests of the Baptists of Texas recommended the reference of the 
question to a committee of fifteen previously appointed in connection 
with the Board of Trustees of Baylor University and Baylor Female 
College. Following this recommendation, the representatives of the 
two Boards of Trustees and the committee of fifteen, twenty-five alto 
gether, met a Committee from the General Association and the repre- 
sentatives of the Trustees of Waco University, thirty-one in number, 
at Temple, Texas, December 9, 1885. A sub-committee appointed from 
this representative body recommended that: As very many Baptists 
oppose co-educaticn, Baylor Female College be located at some other 
central point, the place where located to give a bonus, at least suitable 
grounds and buildings; and that Baylor Female College, thus located 
be also the property of the consolidated general body; and that the act 
of locating Baylor Female College be referred to the following per- 
sons: 

F. M. Law, A.W. Dunn, H.W. Waters, C. R. Breedlove, G.W. Capps, 
J. B. Link, R. J. Sledge, R. Andrews, O. H. P. Garrett, S. F. Styles, M. 
V. Smith, Harry Haynes, G. W. Breedlove, Hosea Garrett, A. W. Mclver, 
William Howard, J. H. Stribbling, S. A. Beauchamp, W. R. Maxwell, C. 
C. Garrett. 

The committee for locating the College advertised for bids accord- 
ing to instruction. All bids were opened at Waco, February 1, 1886, 
and the location then determined. Temple had subscribed thirty 
thousand dollars and Belton thirty-two thousand dollars. Belton'?; 
offer was accepted and the commitee repaired to Belton and chose for 
the proffered site the commanding eminence one mile northwest of the 
court house. 

The Board of Trustees met at Caldwell February 11, 188 6 and 
unanimously adopted the report of the locating committee. 

A building committee was appointed with instruction to erect the 
College as expeditiously as possible that it might be ready for the open- 
ing in September. Rev. M. V. Smith and Captain A. J. Harris were a 
committee to secure titles and to purchase land contiguous to the Col- 
lege grounds. Agents were also sent out to collect funds for the build- 
ing. 

The cornerstone of the College was laid April 21, 1886 by the Ma- 
sonic Lodge. The stone is of Burnet Marble and bears the simple in- 
scription "Independence 1845. Removed to Belton, 1886." Encased 
in the stone are the usual college records, a college banner, a report of 
the Alumnae Association, a copy of the Belton Journal and a program 
of the day's exercise. Dr. B. H. Carroll delivered a masterful address 
on Christian Education. 

Although the building was not entirely completed, the formal 
opening was on September 13, 1886. At 9:30 o'clock the college bell 
rang out its first glad call to students, faculty, friends and patrons who 

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assembled to honor the occasion. Speeches were made briefly recount- 
ing the founding of the institution, its history, its removal to Belton 
and Belton's welcome to Baylor. Captain A. J. Harris, chairman of the 
Building Committee, presented the keys of the building to Dr. F. M. 
Law, the President of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Law received them 
with appropriate response. Major W. E. Penn, a great evangelist of 
that day, delivered the address of the occasion. President Luther 
then introduced his corps of teachers and after a prayer of dedication, 
Baylor College entered upon the forty-second year of her existence, 
the twentieth under her separate charter and the ninth under Dr. 
Luther's administration. 

In the spring of 1888 an addition was begun consisting of a wing 
seventy-eight by forty-eight feet added to the north end of the main 
building. A full sized basement with concrete floor served as dinning 
room and kitchen. The first floor was given to the Fine Arts Depart- 
ment and the second and third doubled the dormitory capacity. 

On account of the failing health of Mrs. Luther and their son, 
John J. Luther, Dr. Luther sent in his resignation to take effect in 
June 1891. It was accepted in the following words: "Whereas, Dr. 
Luther has presented his resignation as President of the College, un- 
conditional, and finally; therefore, be it resolved: that the resignation 
be accepted to take place next June; that in accepting 7 the resignation 
of Dr. Luther, the Trustees express to him and his faithful wife not 
only their personal confidence and appreciation, but also the thanks 
of the denomination as far as they can give expression thereto, for the 
long and efficient service they have rendered the College during their 
whole connection with it." 

The thirteen years of wise and efficient administration under 
President Luther were marked by constant demands for enlargement, 
by the broadening of the curriculum and by the increase of students. 
The matriculation had reached three hundred. 

Professor P. H. Eager of the University of Mississippi, having been 
a former teacher of the College and having championed her 
claims publicly and privately over nearly all the State of Texas, be- 
came President in September 1891. The work of the Board with his 
co-operation during his administration was, to take care of the float- 
ing indebtedness and to awaken an interest in Christian education. 

In June 1893, Miss Elli Moore, the presiding teacher of the Col- 
lege presented her resignation to the Board because of her broken 
health and her desire to undertake the establishment of a home for 
girls who were not able to pay for an expensive education. In appre- 
ciation of her service, the following resolution was adopted: "Where- 
as, Miss Moore has been a most faithful teacher and loyal officer of the 
school for the past twelve years and has been greatly esteemed; re- 
solved, that her resignation be laid over and that we grant her a 
leave of absence, without salary, for one year and that the secretary 
be instructed to inform her of this action and ask her acquiescence; 
that we earnestly hope that she may find that rest and recuperation 
of health that her earnest labors have made so necessary for her; that 
in taking this action we express our high appreciation of her love and 



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devotion to Baylor College and that, whether ever associated with the 
school as teacher again or not, we hope she will still give her earnest 
sympathies and labors for its support and prosperity as in the past." 

After consideration of the matter, Miss Moore felt compelled to 
give up her position in the College and inaugurated the Cottage Home 
plan September 6, 1893. Miss Elli Moore's service to Baylor had be- 
gun with her matriculation as a student in the old College at Inde- 
pendence and aside from a few months of private teaching and study 
in Philadelphia has continued an unbroken relationship with Baylor 
College from 1876 to the present. She has not only been the Founder 
and Manager of the Cottage Home but she has been the inspiration of 
much that has been accomplished by the Alumnae Association and 
more than any one connected with the college has known its internal 
struggles and has devoted her life to the upbuilding of her Alma Mater. 

Miss Moore was succeeded by Miss Clara A. Bixby of Ironton, 
Ohio. Miss Bixby's service continued through a period of sixteen 
years. She was an efficient Principal and besides her duties as a 
Principal, taught in both Art and Literary Departments. 

Dr. E. H. Wells was elected President to succeed Professor Eager 
in 189 4. Under the administration of Dr. Wells, the College pro- 
ceeded in the face of financial depression and debt to grow and at the 
close of the first decade of Baylor at Belton both enrollment and 
standing had advanced. On February 1, 1895, fifty years after the 
charter was granted to Baylor at Independence, Baylor College cele- 
brated her Golden Jubilee. Rev. G. B. Rogers, Rev. Jeff D. Ray and 
Dr. E. H. Wells were on the program for the day. Miss Gertie Oster- 
hout gave a review of the College history and Miss Elli Moore, the pre- 
view. At the June Commencement the occasion was further cele- 
brated with the return of Dr. Clark who as Principal of the College for 
fifteen years, and President for five years at Independence, served 
a longer term than any President has ever served. Many old students 
returned to meet Dr. Clark, and Dr. Burleson who was associated with 
him at Indepedence as President of Baylor University. 

In 18 96 Dr. Wells resigned the presidency to accept a less arduous 
position in the College and was succeeded by Dr. W. A. Wilson of Lex- 
ington, Missouri. With Dr. Wilson's acceptance of the Presidency in 
1896, an administration of further growth began, the most impor- 
tant accomplishment being the erection of the Wilson Administration 
Building. 

On May 2, 1902, the situation of the College was considered bv 
President Wilson and the Board of Trustees as demanding the erec- 
tion of an additional building. In 1903 the urgent need of such a 
building was laid before the individual members of the Educational 
Commission. This Board unanimously voted to allow the College to 
raise twenty-five thousand dollars on the field. 

W'ork of the Board and agencies was continued until 19 07 when 
the building was made possible through the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam Reeves of Fort Worth. They contributed ten thousand dollars 
to this building in loving memory of their deceased daughter, Mrs. 
Alma Reeves Langham, who like her mother, Mrs. Mattie Hosea Reeves, 
had been a student in Baylor College. In her memory the beautiful 
Auditorium was named Alma Reeves Chapel. The laying of the cor- 
nerstone took place exactly twenty years after the first cornerstone 
was laid in Belton, with Temple and Belton Masonic lodges officiating. 

With the expectation of assembling in the Alma Reeves Chapel 
in September, the old chapel of the first building was converted into 



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rooms to accommodate students, but at the time of opening, the Ad- 
ministration building was too incomplete for use and a large tent 
was pitched on the campus which served as a chapel until October 
2 4, 1907, when the doors of Alma Reeves chapel were opened. 

On April 26, 1909, the first Home Coming was held at the Col- 
lege. The program included inspirational addresses by Dr. Wilson, 
Mrs. Townsend, Dr. Lattimore and Dr. Andrews; delightful social af- 
fairs, and literary featrues. The Heme Coming was to become an 
event of every fourth year when all Alumnae, ex-students and Baylor 
friends should return to the College for a glimpse of the present, a vis- 
ion of the future, and happy reunions. 

The year 1910-1911 was marked by the beginning of many sub- 
stantial improvements. Large quarters in the old building were 
planned for the Library which was made possible by the consolidation 
of the College and Cottage Home Libraries, furnishing in all 
Live thousand volumes. One ci the provisions in the correlation of 
our schools is that Baylor Female College shall be equipped to do full 
college work and confer all usual Bachelor degrees. A report made 
by the Faculty and adopted by the Board of Trustees recommended 
that the requirements for entrance and graduation be made uniform 
with the best Colleges of the country. In raising her standards, Bay- 
lor College has merely met the demands of Texas Baptists. Recog- 
nizing the demand for a summer session of Baylor College, the Board 
of Trustees, in April 1911, ordered that such a session be provided 
and that it be held each succeeding summer. 

After an administration of fifteen years, Dr. Wilson resigned. 
In an annual report to the Baptist General Convention of Texas, the 
following tribute was paid Dr. Wilson: "This year marked the close 
of Dr. Wilson's long period of fifteen years as Fresident. He came to 
the College at a time when the cloud of debt hung heavy and threaten- 
ing over her. He left her with practically all of this old indebtedness 
paid in possession of a splendid new Administration building, a great- 
ly improved course of study and a very much larger student body. He 
was a wise and safe administrator and a noble, true hearted man. 
He was especially fitted for the head of the College at that time, and 
his administration will go down in history as a successful one." Fol- 
lowing the resignation of Dr. Wilson, Dr. E. G. Townsend acted as 
President during the year, 1911-1912 and Professor W. M. W. Splawn 
was elected Dean of the College. 

On September 12, 1911, the day preceeding the silver celebration 
of the College at Belton, notification was received from the State De- 
partment of Education that an acceptable Library was the final re- 
quirement to give the College State recognition. Through the efforts 
of the Alumnae Association. Miss Ollie Cochran presented a check 
for one thousand dollars which made it possible to complete the re- 
quirement for the Library. 

After all necessary requirements had been met, the State De- 
partment of Education agreed upon the recommendation of the State 
Board of Examiners to recognize the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and 
Bachelor of Literature conferred by Baylor College, as coming from 
a College of the first class, so that the students of Baylor College now 
receive teachers' certificates without examinations, on the same terms 
as students of any recognized college or university. 

On February 1, 1912. the first permanent state certificate was 
received by Miss Myrtle Higginbotham. 

On June 12, 1912, Dr. J. C. Hardy entered upon his presidency of 
the College after years of experience in school administration in Missis- 
sippi. Closely associated with him is Dr. E. G. Townsend who served 



Page twenty-three 



as Dean from 1912 to 1918, when he was made Vice-President of the 
College. Under the wise and energetic leadership of Dr. Hardy the 
College has been infused with a new life. Progress during his admin- 
istration has been along four lines; internal expansion, material 
equipment, increased attendance, and an ever increasing circle of new 
friends. 

The internal organization has been greatly strengthened by a 
rearrangement of courses, by bringing the whole system of business 
administration up to a thorough efficient and modern standard, by 
the addition of new departments of instruction and by dividing the 
school year into four quarters. 

In material equipment, a fourth story and sleeping porches have 
been added to Luther Hall, Ferguson Hall, Heard Hall and Burt Hall 
have been built for use as dormitories. Well's Science Hall is soon to 
be completed and Ruth Stribling Hall is nearing completion. A num- 
ber of buildings of a temporary character have been built to care for 
the unprecedented expansion, a thoroughly equipped dairy and 
creamery and two hundred acres of farm land have been added. 

The dormitories have been practically refurnished, also 
many of the class rooms and laboratories. The Library has been 
more than doubled in the number of books and more than quadrupled 
in use. New pianos have been installed in the Music Department and 
a new studio for the Expression Department. The material invest- 
ment has increased during President Hardy's administration from 
two hundred and fifty thousand to one million dollars. 

The attendance has increased from four hundred and eight to 
one thousand three hundred and fifty, and is representative of the en- 
tire State besides other States and foreign countries. 

The fourth line of growth is in the innumerable host of friends 
President Hardy has made everywhere. These have been gathered 
from every class and profession. He has made the name of Baylor 
College familiar where it had never been known. He has held the old 
friends while adding the new. 

Not included in either of the above lines of growth, but one of the 
important events consumated during this period was the consolida- 
tion of the Cottage Home institution with the College. 

There is no doubt that the College is on the eve of tremendous 
growth. These great possibilities are being marshaled and unified 
in a most marvelous way under the forceful hand of President Hardy. 

On Charter Day, February 1, 1920, Baylor College entered upon 
her Diamond Jubilee celebration which was culminated in the com- 
mencement exercises in June. Older than Texas, older than Vassar, 
older than our great State institutions, she has stood the test of seven- 
ty-five years and stands at the dawning of a new day with out- 
stretched opportunities to the coming generation of College girls. 
Like a bright and sparkling diamond, her influence will radiate in the 
world. Her daughters will be as "cornerstones polished after the 
similitude of a palace." Her mission will be fulfilled in those who 
go out from her walls to become in spirit and in truth the daughters 
of the visions and dreams of her founders. 



Page t-w enty-four 



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First Building at Belton 




First Building at Belton Enlarged 




Enlarged and Named Luther Hall 



rage twenty-five 




Wilson Administration Building 



W 




Mary Ferguson Hall 



Page twenty-six 




i ; /; ,..i 



Heard Hall 




The Campus 



Page twenty-seven 



Presidents at Belton 




J. H. Luther 
D. D. 





P. H. Eager 
A. M. 



E. H. Wells, M. D. 




W. A. "Wilson 
D. D. 




E. G. Townsend 
D. D. 






J. C. Hardy 
LL. D. 



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Cottage Home Managers 





Mrs. Blli Mocrc 
Town send 




Miss Sue Cochran 



Mrs. Ella 
Telvengton Ely 




Mrs. Juliette 

Bozeman 
Touchstone 
First Student-As- 
sistant Manager 
oil Cottage Home 
Died Dee. 1918. 




^.AP^ 



Mrs. Sallie 

Roberts 

Chamberlain 




Mrs. Minnie Wells 
Crofts 




Mrs. Euey Adams 
Pitts 




Mrs. Joe Moore 
Howard 



Pag-e twenty-nin 



Cottage Home 

Miss Elli Mocre entered Baylor College at Independence in 1876, 
and after graduation in 1879 spent the following two years teaching 
a private school and in special college work in Philadelphia. She ac- 
cepted a position as a member of the Baylcr College Faculty in 1881, 
and since that date has been prominently identified with the history 
of the College. She viewed the removal of the College from Independ- 
ence to Belton with mingled sadness and joyful anticipation of its 
future. 

On September 13, 1886, she entered upon her duties as presiding 
teacher in Baylor at Belton. Her large sphere cf usefulness brought 
before her constant appeals cf girls who could not afford the expense 
of a College education. As far as it was possible to do so, arrange- 
ments were made for girls to make their expenses in the College, but 
the fact that all cor Id not be given financial assistance intensified 
Miss Moore's desire to extend a helping hand to those not provided for 
in this way. In the midst cf her grea*- responsibilities and earnest 
efforts to devise ways and means of helping college girls, her health 
failed and she was compelled to go to Europe for a period rf res': 
and recreation. 

Upon her return she assumed her duties as presiding teacher in 
the College and continued her effoits in behalf of those who depended 
upon her. In 1892 she built a small house near the campus and al- 
lowed some girls to have it free of rent during the college year. The 
experiment only proved the necessity of having a home where the 
girls might be gathered in a real home-circle and taught lessons of in- 
dustry and economy, self-control and loving self-sacrifice. They could 
have managed by doing light-housekeeping or living about with fami- 
lies, but they would have been denied the invaluable training of liv- 
ing together in a Christian home where everything would be planned 
for their development. Since it is only the occasional one who be- 
comes a missionary or a leader in the professional or business world. 
Miss Moore felt that young girls must be furnished the proper heme 
environment in order to impress upon them the highest ideal of home- 
life to which the great majority would aspire. The question of how 
to devise a plan more far-reaching was constantly on her mind and 
heart and impressed with the desire to put such a plan into execution, 
Miss Moore resigned her position as a member of the Baylor College 
Faculty in 1893 and at once entered upon an experiment that has not 
only proved successful in Belton, but has been the inspiration of the 
establishment of similar institutions in other college towns. 

A very desirable lot near the College was secured on favorable 
terms and through the influence of Mrs. Florence Long of Beaumont, 
the lumber for the first cottage was loaded on the cars free of cost 
and shipped at half rates. Thus, the first small oot f aee was begun 
and the Cottage Home inaugurated September 6. 1893. The first 
cottage was opened to twelve girls. The next year there was a large- 
ly increased demand for admittance which indicated, better than any 
other thing, the entire feasibility and success of the plan. At the be- 
ginning of this year through the efforts of a former Cottage girl, one 

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hundred dollars had been raised and two new rooms were added. 
This accommodated eight additional girls. Others had to be denied 
lor lack of room. Miss Moore felt that provision for at least forty 
must be made to meet the growing demand. Another lot adjoining 
the first was purchased for four hundred dollars. This was made 
possible by a loan from an out-of-State friend. The building material 
was obtained on terms and the second cottage, two stories and a half, 
was finished by the opening of the third year. With personal funds 
which at that time came into the hands of the founder, she erected 
another cottage. It was then possible to accommodate seventy stu- 
dents at the beginning of the fourth year. 

During the early years of the development of the Cottage Home 
plan, extreme self denial, absolute faith in God, unceasing prayer and 
untiring effort characterized the spirit of the founder and the girls 
who received the benefit of her wise leadership were inspired to enter 
into her plans and shared with her many of the burdens that came to 
her in such an undertaking. The generosity of personal friends, the 
loyal effort of the girls, and Miss Moore's able management made it 
possible to secure property, loans, and other gifts that were necessary 
in building and furnishing the cottages. The foundation of the Cot- 
tage Home plan was built upon enduring principles. In her own 
words Miss Moore defined her ideas that she considered of vital im- 
portance in founding the Home. "Three things of vital importance 
are necessary in founding the Home on a permanent and healthy 
basis; first: correct principles must be firmly fixed and set forth as 
the standard of living in our Cottage family. We cannot conceive of 
a home happy or complete except the ruling principles there are the 
cardinal virtues of self-control, self-sacrifice, and purity of mind and 
soul. These we constantly endeavor by divine assistance to impress 
on every girl who comes into the Home. The second thing to be con- 
sidered is the right kind of material. Young ladies who can by any 
means enter the College have no right to the benefits of the Cottage 
and will not be received. Those who have not the foundation for 
noble characters or who can not be inspired to imbibe the ideas of true 
life will not be retained in the Cottage. In view of these two neces- 
sary precautions for protection and honor of the Cottage, no young 
lady will be received unless satisfactory references can be given with 
regard to her character and financial condition. Third, economy 
must be the watchword of the management." 

Her emphasis was placed most of all upon the religious activi- 
ties of the girls and despite the ever increasing lack of funds, the dis- 
concerting changes that had come in the administration of the Col- 
lege, the hardships that usually accompany the experiences of pio- 
neers, her life was consecrated to the fulfillment of her great purpose 
in training women to become useful workers in the Master's vine- 
yard. 

Prom such a vision of wc rid-wide usefulness, from such a begin- 
ning of faith and unselfish endeavor, the Cottage Heme plan has 
proved itself a success and a blessing. Details of its management 
have been changed from time to time and will have to be modified to 
meet changing conditions in the future, but the essential principles 
on which the foundation was laid will remain the same. 



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On September 13, 1899, Miss Moore and Rev. E. G. Townesend 
were married in the College Chapel. Dr. John Hill Luther assisted 
by President W. A. Wilson officiated at this important event which 
Miss Moore insisted should be on an anniversary of the College. Mr. 
Townsend entered into the spirit of the Cottage Home life with deep- 
est interest and has been her constant guide in the difficulties, the 
struggles, and the victorious achievement of her cherished plans. 

As the number of students increased from year to year, other 
cheap frame buildings were erected for the girls. In 1900 the need of 
a large permanent building was keenly felt and upon the presentation 
of the matter, Mrs. Townsend received a unique response that laid the 
foundation for the building fund. Mrs. Dora Carter Scott who was 
formerly a member of the Cottage Home family suggested that a prac- 
tice of self-denial be made in giving a stamp each week. Mrs. Town- 
send proposed the plan to the girls in the Home at the time and they 
cheerfully adopted it. It became known as the "Nita Scott Fund" in 
memory of Mrs. Scott's little daughter whose collection of pennies was 
added to the fund upon her death. 

In 1903 when the stamp fund had reached six hundred dollars, 
Rev. E. C. Ely touched by the self-denying efforts of the girls, began 
to solicit funds for the much needed home . His efforts were most 
heroic as he labored against difficulties untold, but sustained by an 
unwavering religious faith and determination, he succeeded in raising 
thirty thousand dollars. The contributions ranged from dollars to 
thousands of dollars and came from all over this great State of ours. 
Mr. J. H. Pepper had provided in his will a bequest of ten thousand 
dollars for the Cottage Home Loan Fund, but decided to enjoy in life 
what he had planned to do at death and responded to the appeal of Mr. 
Ely with a gift of ten thousand dollars. 

Before the close of school in 1904, the excavation for the base- 
ment had begun. The foundation was being paid for by the "Nita 
Scott Fund." The cornerstone was laid March 2, 1905, upon an oc- 
casion of great rejoicing and thanksgiving for the generous response 
of friends and the undoubted approval of God upon the institution. 
The cornerstone bears an inscription from Psalms 127:1, "Except the 
Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." The building 
was opened for students September 6, 1905, tewlve years after the in- 
auguration of the Cottage Home work. The formal dedication did not 
take place until November 12, 1906. Dr. R. C. Buckner delivered the 
dedication address. Over the double front doors of this building is 
inscribed on a white marble slab these words from Psalm 135; 13, 
"Thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations." 

It is significant that from the beginning of her dreams of helping- 
girls and through the development and struggle of the years, Mrs. 
Townsend has possessed that power of drawing to her those who have 
most unselfishly and loyally helped in the management of the Cottage 
Home. Miss Sue Cochran who was a senior in the College when Miss 
Moore conceived her idea of establishing a home for college girls, has 
always responded to appeals for personal service and contribution in 
a way that has been of great help to the founder. During the early 



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years, the assistance of Miss Ella Yelvington made it possible for Miss 
Moore to leave the Home in the hands of one thoroughly capable of 
management, as she personally undertook to place the Cottage Home 
work before the denomination. Miss Yelvington continued her ser- 
vices after her marriage to Rev. E. C. Ely. Miss Sallie Roberts assis- 
ted by her sister, Miss Fannie Roberts, shared much of the responsi- 
bility of the Home from 1897 to 1902, when she was married to Mr. 
H. J. Chamberlain. When the permanent building was ready for 
occupancy in 1905, Miss Juliette Bozeman who had helped with the 
management of the Home, and had graduated at the College became 
the assistant manager, and rendered loyal, efficient service in the or- 
ganization of the girls in the larger building. Miss Joe Moore, a 
graduate of 1908, was assistant manager from 1909 to 1913 during 
a time of increased attendance and many responsibilities which she 
cheerfully assumed. In 1913, Mrs. E. C. Ely returned as assistant 
manager, which position she holds at the present. 

While the early years were experimental and all the years, have 
been full of struggles, the founder has worked out from minutest de- 
tail to world-wide scope plans, that will prove noteworthy in the pro- 
gress of Christian education. Of greatest importance has been the 
establishment of a Loan Fund for the College girls and a fund to be 
used for the preparation of those who will go as foreign missionaries. 

Having realized that the Home had become permanently estab- 
lished, Mrs. Townsend decided to transfer it to the Baylor College 
trustees. In accordance with her desire, the transfer was accepted 
by the Baptist State Convention, November 18, 1915. The deeds to 
the property with all the Cottage Home funds and liabilities were 
turned over to the College trustees July 1, 1916. In honor of the 
work done for the Cottage Home by Rev. and Mrs. E. C. Ely and Mr. 
J. H. Pepper and wife, it was decided to name the first permanent 
building Ely-Pepper Hall. The management of the Home has been 
continued under the same plan with Mrs. Townsend as manager, and 
Mrs. Ely assistant manager. They are to serve as long as they live; or 
until they voluntarily resign. 

As an institution, the Cottage Home has helped in the work of 
the denomination, and has received from it that co-operation and gen- 
erous response that has made it possible. There is no outstanding- 
feature more noticeable than that of the denominational activities in 
the Home. Every form of organized effort has been introduced, and 
the girls are trained to become leaders in the churches, associations 
and missions. 

As a culmination of this period of Cottage Home history, Ruth 
Stribling Hall is being erected close by Ely-Pepper Hall and will bear 
the inscription from Psalm 68:28, "Strengthen, O God, that which 
thou hast wrought for us." This building has been made possible 
through the efforts of Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Townsend in securing from 
Mr. J. C. Stribbling a gift of fifty thousand dollars, and is named in 
honor of his daughter Ruth, who was a Baylor girl. 

As the year 1920 closes, the registration has reached four hun- 
dred. More than three thousand girls have left the Home as living 
memorials to the founder's great purpose. 



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The First Cottage 





Mrs. Dora Carter 
Scott 



Rev. E. C. Ely 




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TEXAS BAPTIST SCHOOLS 



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R. C. Burleson, D. D., LL. D., Baylor University. 

Rev. G. W. Baines Sr., Baylor University. 

"William Carev Crane, D. D., LL. D., Baylor Univers: 

B. S. Fitzgerald, Baylor Female College. 

Horace Clark. LL. D., Baylor Female College. 

H. L. Graves. D. D., LL. D., Baylor Female College. 

W. W. Fontaine, A. M., Bavlor Female College. 

William Royall, D. D.. Baylor Female College. 

J. H. Luther, D. D., Baylor Female College. 

Reddin Andrews, D. D., Baylor University. 



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Our Baptist Schools 



Baptists are not antagonistic to a State system of education. They 
support and patronize it. They recognize and appreciate the Chris- 
tian work that is done in State institutions. It is the privilege and 
the duty, however, of the Baptist denomination to establish a system 
of education that will uphold their conceptions of Christian influence 
end training. The more restricted and limited privileges of the State 
present thai organization wbich the Baptists consider important. The 
different creeds of the genera 1 public make it impossible for the sys- 
tem 10 bo left 10 individuals. The Baptists, therefore, enjoying the 
broad religious freedom of our great nation have evolved a system 
which they consider provides an adequate plan for the advancement 
of Christian education. 

It is significant that before the nineteenth century every college 
in the United States was founded by a Christian church or minister 
except the University of Pennsylvania; even that was founded by Ben- 
jamin Praklin and the Bible was used as a text book. Harvard in 
1636, William and Mary in 1693, Yale in 1701, Princeton in 1746, 
were all founded and maintained by Christian churches. 

The Baptist denomination may well be proud of its part in 
public, private, and Christian education. It was Dr. John Clarke, a 
Baptist preacher, who founded the first free school in America in 
Rhode Island 1675. The Baptists founded Brown University in 1764 
in Rhode Island, "the only one of the Colonies in which absolute re- 
ligious freedom could be guaranteed to the new enterprise." It was 
the only institution in America or Europe at the time to open its doors 
to students of all sects. The repetition of denominational colleges 
continued in the North from which "every Baptist college in the 
South took root." 

The beginning of Furman as an academy in South Carolina in 
1826, Mississippi College in 1826, Georgetown College of Kentucky 

182 9, the beginning of Richmond College in 1832, Wake Forrest in 

183 3, Mercer in 1833, Judson in 183 8, and Howard in 1843 were the 
few important Baptist Colleges of the South that preceded the found- 
ing of Baylor University at Independence in 1845. 

For forty-four years, Baylor College and Baylor University were 
the only Baptist schools in Texas. They weie followed by Howard 
Payne in 1889, Simmons in 1891, Rusk in 1894, Burleson in 1895, 
Decatur in 1898, San Marcos in 1907, Wayland in 1908, and Mar- 
shal in 1912. 

Our Baptist schools are under the control of the Baptist General 
Convention of Texas. They have been correlated in a system that 
gives them permanency and strength. Such a system of correlation 
enables the denomination to care for the schools as a whole. Their 
interest in Texas Baptist schools has become statewide rather than 
local. It impresses upon them their obligations to all of the schools. 
It is the most practical way of enlisting the entire denomination in the 



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cause of education. It relieves the situation of collecting funds, sep- 
arately for the equipment of the different schools. Through correla- 
tion, the schools themselves are made stronger by affiliated courses. 
Those of higher rank become the goals for students of the Junior Col- 
leges and the Academies. The system has provoked the emulation 
of other States. 

The idea of such a confederation of Baptist Schools was conceived 
by Colonel C. C. Slaughter. To support and encourage the movement 
he subscribed twenty-five thousand dollars. This gift was followed 
by other contributions which led to establishing the Baptist Education 
Commission at a meeting af the Baptist General Convention which was 
held in San Antonio in 1897. Dr. J. B. Gambrell was the first Presi- 
dent, and Dr. J. M. Carroll the financial secretary. The work of the 
Commission was carried on later by the Educational Board of which A. 
J. Barton D. D. was the Secretary. The work now continues under the 
Executive Board of the Convention and is participating in the 
plans made by the Seventy-Five Million Campaign, the definite goal 
of which is to raise $20,000,000 for Christian Education in the South. 

It is significant that the educational program of our Texas Bap- 
tist Convention should have preceded that of our Southern Baptist 
Convention. It was not until 1910 that the Southern Baptist Conven- 
tion arranged for a report on general education in its general session. 
This memorable report was made by Dr. W. L. Poteat, then of Wake 
Forest College. A commission on education had been serving the 
Southern Baptist Convention for several years, but it was not until 
May 1919, upon recommendation of the Commission that the Educa- 
tion Board was created. The headquarters were established in Bir- 
mingham, Alabama. 

For several years our great denominational leaders have realized 
the necessity of having some organized effort made to offer the stu- 
dents Of our State institutions, a constructive knowledge of the Bible 
and Christianity, and to enlist them in our denominational work. As 
a result of this desire on the part of certain ones, the Executive Board 
of the Baptist General Convention of Texas, in conjunction with the 
University Baptist Church of Austin, established the John C. Townes 
Bible Chair and opened it to the students of the State University in the 
fall of 1919. The English Bible is taught from the literary and his- 
torical point of view. Students are also organized for active affilia- 
tion with the church and are trained for aggressive leadership in the 
church. 

Our State Board is making provision for other State schools by 
putting student pastors and trained directors of religious education in 
contact with the students. 



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Col. C. C. 

Slaughter 




A. J. Barton 
D. D. 





J. B. Gambrell 
D. D. 



J. M. Carroll 
D. D. 





Jeff D. Ray 
D. D. 



Or. F. S. Groner 
Secretary of Ex- 
ecutive Board of 
Baptist General 
Convention 




L. R. Scarborough 
D. D. 




Dr. T. V. Neal 
Educational Sec- 
retary of Execu- 
tive Board of 
Baptist General 
Convention 



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Founders and Presidents 



Baylor's history can not be summarized alone from the various 
records that have been kept of her charters, her corner stones, her 
buildings, her changes, and all the external equipment that has beeu 
ners, but from the lives of those who laid her foundation and those who 
guided her through seventy-five years, as well. The lives of Baylor 
and Tryon as founders, followed by her eighteen presidents, reveal 
far more of the spirit that has characterized Baylor from the begin- 
ning to the present than does any historical record. As her seventy- 
five years now recede into history, she will enter into a future that has 
been made possible through the administration of her Presidents, aid- 
ed by faithful Trustees, loyal teachers, generous friends, Alumnae, 
and students. 



R. E. B. BAYLOR. 

Robert Emmet Bledsoe Baylor was born in Bourbon county, Ken- 
tucky, May 10, 1791, and died at his residence at Gayhill, Washington 
county, Texas, on Tuesday, December 30, 1873, and was buried accord- 
ing to request, alone, on the campus of Baylor University, Indepen- 
dence, Texas. He was re-intered on the campus of Baylor College 
at Belton, Texas, on May 6, 1917. 

A third of a century in Texas as statesman, preacher, soldier and 
educator, is the record of this pioneer leader, who contributed im- 
measurably to the work of establishing our government, our social 
structure, and our educational system; one whose honored name is 
borne by two of the leading educational institutions of Texas, Baylc 
College and Baylor University. 

His father, Robert Baylor, was a colonel in the Revolutionary 
War and served as aide to General Washington. His maternal grand- 
father, Aaron Bledsoe, was imprisoned in Virginia for Breaching 
Baptist doctrine and was defended by Patrick Henry. His cousin, 
Robert Baylor Sample, was the first president and one of the founders 
of Columbia University of Washington City. 

His early education was received in a country school and at the 
Paris Academy in Kentucky. At an early age, he began the study 
of law under his uncle, Mr. Bledsoe, and was elected to the Legislature 
at the age of twentv-three. He is described as a commanding person 
of six feet, two and a half inches, with a power of eloquence that won 
him distinction at once. His entrance into public life was at the time 
of the war between our country and Great Britain. Literature he read at 
this time of his life led him to infidelity. Voltaire and Tom Paine 
had influenced him to such an extent that he did not profess religion 
until he was past forty. However, he was deeply impressed while in 
the Legislature by the simple preaching of Rev. Jeremiah Vardeman. 
He even followed the earnest preacher into the country and heard his 
presentation of the truth for two weeks. 

After some twenty years practice of law in Kentucky, he moved 
to Alabama in 1833, where he continued the practice of his profession 
in Cahaba and Tuscaloosa. He was twice elected to Congress from 
the Tuscaloosa district. 



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During a meeting conducted by his cousin, Thomas Chilton, at 
Talladega, he made a profession of religion and was baptized He be- 
gan at once to live his religion and was licensed to preach in 1838. 

In 183 9 Judge Baylor made his decision to come to Texas, and from 
that time until his death, in 1873, devoted his life to the old Republic 
and the new State. At this period of history, the Republic of Texas 
was three years old, its total population consisting of Anglo-Ameri- 
cans, Indians, Mexicans and Negroes, was only 52,670. 

He stopped first at LaGrange, and there "he taught the bare- 
footed boys of the village." His judicial career, h ; s participation m 
the struggle against Mexicans and Indians, his minisrty to the church, 
and his connection with educational affairs filled his long life with 
great responsibilities. 

He fought as a private under General Burleson at the battle of 
Plum Creek against Indian invaders, that had sacked and burned 
Linnville. He participated in the defense of his country against In- 
dian and Mexican raids, particularly in 1842, 1843, and 1844. 

Under the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, Congress was 
empowered to select District Judges for the several districts and a 
Chief Justice. These assembled once a year, and constituted the 
Supreme Court of the Republic. Baylor was made District Judge for 
the Third Judicial District, then composed of the counties of Austin, 
Washington, Milam, Colorado, Gonzales, and others, which were at 
that time the most populous of the Republic. He acted as judge of 
this district during the remaining days of the Republic. 

Only the dictates of their common sense and their honest desire 
for justice guided the Judges in their great task of bringing judicial 
order out of confusion. An examination of the records of the Su- 
preme Court discloses the remarkable fact that nearly all cases involv- 
ing constitutional questions were assigned to Judge Baylor. 

Judge Baylor did not dveote his entire time to his judicial career. 
He found time to help in the organization of church and educational 
affairs. He assisted in the organization of the Travis church in 1839; 
of the Union Association in 1840, and of the Washington church in 
Texas in 1842. At the organization of the Union association in 18 40, 
he was made corresponding secretary. He was a member of the Tex- 
as Baptist Educational Society, which was organized at the Union As- 
sociation in 1843. He was appointed chairman of a committee to 
draft rules for the organization of the churches of the fifth session of 
the Union Association in 18 44. He was elected president of the Mis- 
sionary Society of the Union Association in 1844. He was elected 
president of the Educational society at the same meeting. The Edu- 
cational society decided to establish a Baptist university. Judge Bay- 
lor assisted in preparing the charter and securing its passage through 
the Legislature. When the charter was presented the place for the 
name was vacant. Baylor suggested the name of Tryon, but Tryon 
filled in the blank with the name of Baylor. The charter was passed 
by the Congress of the Republic, and approved by the president, An- 
son Jones, February 1, 1845. Judge Baylor was made president of 
the Board of Trustees. He gave the first gift of one thousand dollars 
that was made to the institution. He not only served as a trustee, but 
also acted as a voluntary agent of the University in collecting money, 
books and apparatus. He also taught in the Law Department. 

He was a delegate to the organization of the Baptist State Conven- 
tion in Anderson, September 8, 1848, and was appointed on the Board 

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of Directors. At the second session in Houston, May 11, 1849, he was 
made one of the vice-presidents. 

Terms of annexation were offered by the Congress of the United 
States to the people of Texas in 184 5. There was held a Constitutional 
Convention to frame a new organic law for the State of Texas, under 
which it was to enter the American Union. Judge Baylor was chosen 
as a delegate to the convention and he with J. Pinkney Henderson, John 
Hemphill, Abner S. Lipscomb, Jose Antonio Navarro, William B. Ochil- 
tree, Charles Bellinger, Isaac Stewart, Edward H. Tarrant, Isaac Van 
Zant, George T. Wood, Thomas J. Rusk and others drafted the Consti- 
tution of 1845, considered by many to be the greatest organic law ever 
written in any State. 

According to the Constitution of 18 45, the Governor appointed 
Distr:^ judges. Judge Baylor was appointed Judge of his old dis- 
trict, and he continued in the same capacity as in his former service as 
District Judge. In 1850 there was a constitutional change, making the 
District Judges elective. The people of his district honored him with 
election as long as he would serve. 

The district over which Judge Baylor presided comprised the 
counties of Brazos, Robinson, Leon, Limestone, Navarro, Burleson, 
Washington, and in 1850 were added the new counties of Bell, Falls, 
McLennan and others. 

He opened the first District Court ever held in Bell county at Bel- 
Ion, which was called Nolanville then, on April 7, 1851. He also held 
the first court ever held in Waco, and while there, preached the first 
sermon ever heard in the town, at the hotel of Captain S. P. Ross. 

It was his custom to travel on horseback from county to county. 
If no court room was provided, he held court under the spreading 
trees. In those pioneer days, the opening of court was a notable event 
and people gathered from all over the county to hear the "Parson 
Judge." He would hold court in the day and preach at night. Some- 
times he would preach on Sunday and then ride sixty miles to hold 
court next day rather than miss a religious service. As a conversa- 
tionalist, an extemporaneous speaker, an orator, a preacher, he at- 
tracted people, and his genial disposition won him friends everywhere. 

Judge Baylor was never married. His last years were spent with 
his sister on his farm, near Gayhill, in Washington county, where his 
death occurred. His services began in the Legislature of Kentucky, 
continued in the Congress of the United States, the Constitutional 
Convention, the District and Supreme Court of the Republic of Texas 
and the District Court of the State of Texas. 



WILLIAM 3IELTON TRYON. 

As long as there are Baptists in Texas, so long will the name Wil- 
liam Melton Tryon be revered and honored. For seventy-five years, 
Texas Baptists have been building on the broad foundations laid by 
this eminent and faithful servant of Christ. He originated and laid 
the foundation of our educational interests in the State. He was 
foremost in the organization of both the Educational Society, and 
Baylor University at Independence. He, with R. E. B. Baylor, draft- 
ed the charter of this pioneer Baptist institution and secured the 
signature of the President of the Republic of Texas. 



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Rev Tryon was born in the city of New York, in 1809; converted 
in 1826 went to Georgia in 1832, and was there, licensed to preach. 
He then spent three years in Mercer Institute, now Mercer University, 
and preached for many years in Georgia. In 1841 he accepted an ap- 
pointment as missionary of the American Baptist Home Mission bociety 
and came to Texas. He organized Chapel Hill church, preached at 
Independence, and in 18 45 became pastor of the Houston Baptist 
church which Rev. James Huckins had organized. During the yellow 
fever epidemic in 1847 in Houston, he contracted the disease and 
died. 

Dr. J. H. Stribling said of him, "Among all the men in Texas 
whom we have lost, the loss of none has been felt so deeply through- 
out the State, as that of Tryon." 



HENRY LEE GRAVES, D. D., LL. D. 

Henry Lee Graves was a native of North Carolina. He gradu- 
ated from the University of North Carolina in 1833, and was elected 
to the chair of Mathematics in Wake Forest, in 1843. In 1838, he took 
charge of a Baptist High School at Cave Springs, Georgia. He arrived 
at Galveston in 1864. Rev. Z. N. Morrell said, "No ship that ever 
ploughed the waves ever brought a more valuable cargo than the one 
which landed Elder J. W. D. Crpath, P. B. Chandler, Noah Hill, and 
Henry L. Graves. 

He was elected the first president of Baylor University at Inde 
pendence, and began his service in 1847. He resigned in 1851. In 
1871, he returned to Independence to become President of Baylor Fe- 
male College for one year. 

For many years, Dr. Graves was foremost among the leaders of 
our Baptist cause in Texas. He was the first President of the Baptist 
State Convention, and was appointed to preach its first annual ser- 
mon. He was one of the best educated ministers of the day, a writer, 
and a calm, courteous presiding officer. His death occurred in 1881. 



RUFUS C. BURLESON, D. D., LL. D. 

If "to live is to respond to external stimuli," Dr. Rufus C. Burle- 
son is now, so far as we may know, wholly and entirely dead "o all 
events upon this earth. When the great educator turned his dim- 
ming eyes for a last loving look upon the sunlit spires of Baylor Uni- 
versity, things of the earth lost all power to bless or blight his noble 
soul. But if to live is to cause others to respond each to his own 
stimulous, then R. C. Burleson is gloriously alive today — more so than 
any man who ever trod on Texas soil. Perhaps, at first, such state- 
ments seem extreme; yet who else "lives" today as does this great 
educator? His faithful and admiring friend, Sam Houston, whom he 
baptised into the Baptist faith, might seem a rival; but Houston 
touched his pioneer hundreds where Dr. Burleson has influenced — 
and yet influences — his tens of thousands. And, as the mental, the 
moral, and the spiritual are superior to the physical and the political, 
the quality as well as the quantity of Dr. Burleson's great influence 
stands surely quite supreme in our Lone Star State. 

He lives today in what he wrought: in "Old Baylor" first, in 
Waco-Baylor later, in the founding of the now great State University 
for which he fought, and in the wide-spread system of our public 



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schools and our great Normal Schools. He lives yet more in what he 
taught, in chapel and in public platforms through the State. Texas 
teachers, preachers and parents by the thousands were influenced by 
his words, and they in turn have touched the lives of uncounted 
youths and maids. Over ten thousand boys and girls have sat in 
chapel day by day beneath his instruction, and in their homes have 
taught their children truths which were powerful because Dr. Burle- 
son's life and personality were behind them. 

He lives the most, I judge, in what he preached, with tongue and 
pen. For this great educator-statesman was likewise an apostle 
of God's grace; and his various pastorates and in his life-long preach- 
ing from Texas pulpits tendered him, he lifted high his Christ as Sav- 
ior, Priest, and King. Yes, Rufus C. Burleson still lives in a world- 
wide influence for good and God; and he will live so long as Baylor 
men and women — aye, as Texas men and women — in home land and 
on foreign field, cherish the works and words of one of Texas' greatest 
and best educators. 

GEORGE BAINES ROSBOROUGH. 



HORACE CLARK, A. M., LL. D. 

In 1851, when it was decided that Baylor College should be spar- 
ated from the University at Independence, in the quaint expression of 
those days we find this record: "Resolved, that Elder Horace Clark 
and his lady, with Miss Harriet Davis, be requested to take charge 
of the Female Department of Baylor University, and that Elder Clark 
be the Principal of said Department on the condition that he be en- 
titled to the tuition fees arising from the same," Elder Clark being 
present, accepted the principalship of Baylor Female College. The 
building committee were authorized and required to have the Female 
Academy building repaired, and made comfortable, and were author- 
ized to provide a suitable residence and boarding house for Elder 
Clark and his family. 

With the exception of the year 1866, Dr. Clark served the College 
until he resigned in 1871. 

He was one of the most conspicuous, as well as the most forceful 
of all that band of foundation builders who wrought so well during the 
first seven years of Baylor's basal life. The permanent success ol 
the Institution was greatly promoted by his judicious management. 
He prompted and encouraged the trustees to lay well the foundation, 
and to devise liberal things for the school in its early days. 

In June 18 95, Dr. Clark, although at the age of seventy-six, 
came to the Golden Jubilee celebration of the college at Belton. On 
this occasion, he delivered an address in which he said: "In the solu- 
tion of all the grave and momentous problems now pressing on the 
statesman, the economist, the moralist, and the Christian, the most 
potent agency, the most steadfast in its loyalty to truth and religion, 
the most reliable in all that pertains to the purifying and uplifting of 
society in all its complex relations, is the agency of educated woman- 
hood. Whatever means have been devised, or may be devised, to pro- 
duce this benign power and to send it forth upon its holy mission 
to bless mankind, should be surrounded, upheld, and maintained by 
all the chivalry, patriotism, manhood, and Christian faith, that the 
age and time may call its own." 

Dr. Clark's long and useful life ended in February, 1909. 



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WILLIAM CAREY CRANE, D. D., LL. D. 

William Carey Crane, who accepted the Presidency of Baylor 
University in January 186 4, was born in the city of Richmond, Vir- 
ginia, March 17, 1816. He received a classical, theological and liter- 
ary education at Columbia College, Washington, D. O, and at Madison 
Uinversity, New York. He was ordained to preach by the Calvert 
Street Church in Baltimore, in 1838. 

He came to Independence in 1863, and put his heart and life into 
the building up of Baylor University, at a time, when one might have 
been appalled at the situation, but he would not give up his determi- 
nation to make the University a success. His own estimation was that 
he sacrificed forty thousand dollars of salary, spent over five thous- 
and dollars of his own means, and personally contributed nearly two 
thousand dollars for the success of the University. 



JOHN HILL LUTHER, D. D. 

John Hill Luther, D. D., wrote the following brief autobiography 
on the back of a photograph shortly before leaving Temple for Bra- 
zil the first time. This condensed history will make known the lead- 
ing activities of his life, but they do not reveal the spiritual beauty of 
his character nor the loving, loyal devotion of those who knew him. 
"Born in Warren, Rhode Island, 1824. Baptized in Narragansett 
Bay, 1836. Graduated Newton Theological Seminary, 1850. Gradu- 
ated Brown University, 1847. Licensed to preach, 1850. Preached 
in Georgia, Savanah, Perry, Cathbert, 1851-1852. Ordained 1853. 
Pastor in South Carolina, Beaufort district, 185 4. Married, 185 4. 
Kansas City, founded Seminary, 1857. Refugee, 1861. Banished, 
1862. Established Journal and Central Baptist in Palmyra and St. 
Louis, January, 1866. Pastor at Pe Fe, Mo., 1876. Pastor at Galves- 
ton, 1877. President of Baylor at Independence, 1878. Retired from 
Baylor, 18 91. Founded Memorial Church, Temple. William Jewell 
conferred Hon. D. D. Phi Belta Cappa, honorary Brown University, 
Master Mason, Royal Arch Mason, Knight Templar, 1892. 

Dr. Luther accepted the Presidency of Baylor College at Inde- 
pendence in 1878. During his administration the college was moved 
to Belton and he continued as President until his resignation in 18 91. 

In the administration of college affairs, in the home life, and 
in all the relations he bore to the College, Dr. Luther was ably and 
devotedly assisted by his wife, Annie Jaudon Luther. Down at old 
Independence, away from the railroad, away from many conveniences 
of the present day, she undertook the responsibility of Matron of the 
College Home. To begin with, there was no money and there was no 
trained help to be had. There were bags of ticking to be sewed up and 
filled with hay to be used in lieu of springs; there were calico cur- 
tains to be made which were hung from shelves, instead of wardrobes, 
There was bread to be baked and jelly to be made, there was the in- 
exorable rotation of three meals a day; the care of the boarding 
pupils and the nursing of the sick; done one day only to be repeated 
the next. But, through the hardships of those days, Mrs. Luther 
thrashed out her Christian philosophy. She wove the woof of common 
events into the warp of a perfect trust in God, and out of the plainest 
day she made cloth of gold. 

As the college grew in numbers, many girls were given the op- 
portunity to make their expenses for board and tuition in the College. 
There existed the greatest sympathy between this class of girls and 
Mrs. Luther, as was true of her relations with all girls, and members 
of the Faculty. 



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After thirteen years of service in Baylor, Dr. and Mrs. Luther 
felt it necessary to make a home for their son, whose young life was 
soon to be taken from them. Following Dr. Luther's resignation, they 
moved to Temple in 18 91. 

Dr. Luther's family were all devoted and loyal members of the 
Baylor family. His daughter, Annie Luther, taught in the college 
before her marriage to Dr. W. B. Bagby, in 1880. She and her hus- 
band were sent as the first foreign missionaries of the Texas Baptists 
to Brazil. For forty years, the Bagby family have labored for the 
Christianization of Brazil. Mrs. Bagby h&,s continued to express her 
devotion to Baylor College by sending her own daughters, and others, 
here for their college training. Her daughter, Ermine Bagby, gradu- 
ated in 1903, and she and her husband, Rev. Sowell, are now mission- 
aries in Argentina. Another daughter, Alice Bagby, graduated in 
1918, and after two years in the Baptist Woman's Missionary Train- 
ing School at Fort Worth, was appointed a missionary to Brazil, where 
she was made Dean of the Sao Paulo Girl's School, which was estab- 
lished by her mother. The third daughter, Helen Bagby, is a member 
of the student body of the present year. It is interesting to note that 
Mrs. Bagby and her three daughters were present, at the Diamond 
Jubilee Celebration in June, 1920. 

Dr. Luther's second daughter, Mrs. Zollie Luther Jones, of the 
class of 1883, also taught in the College preceding her marriage. Her 
two daughters, Harriett and Doris, have attended Baylor, the former 
having graduated in Art, in 1918. 

After a brief illness, Dr. Luther's life of service ended in Sao 
Paulo, Brazil, July 16, 1903, while he was on a visit to his daughter, 
Mrs. Bagby. In 1908, he was reinterred at Belton by the side of his 
wife who preceded him in 1894. 

"His was a life apart from the things that most vex mankind, and 
in a higher, spiritual atmosphere he largely dwelt, striving with all 
the powers of the tenderest of hearts and great wealth of intellect to 
help make the world brighter and better. All loved him and accorded 
to him the virtue of true preacher, teacher, and friend." 



P. H. EAGER, D. D. 

In 1891, Professor Eager of the University of Mississippi, having 
formerly been a member of the Baylor College faculty returned to ac- 
cept the Presidency, following the resignation of Di% Luther. 

He thus clearly stated the policy of his administration: "The 
aim and motive which drew me back to dear old Baylor to assume the 
Presidency was, I want to realize in all my thought and work for 
Baylor College that this institution is of God and must be adminis- 
tered for God. It is not simply an institution of learning. It is a 
Christian agency as well, and must hold up the cross of Christ; aim at 
the conversion and establishment in Christian work and benevolence 
of every student who enters it; and keep also definitely in view to re- 
enforce the mission fields from our numbers. 

Next to the spirit of Christianity embodied in the above, the ele- 
vation of the scholarship of the institution was a prime object in my 
administration, and I addressed myself immediately and vigorously 
to the reorganization of the course of study." 



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ELIAB HORATIO WELLS, A. M., M. I). 
By Martha C. Dowell. 

The "old red hills of Georgia" do not vie in fertility with the 
broad acres of Texas, but like the land of Phthia, they are productive 
of heroes. In the town of Zebulon, Georgia, June 27, 1836, our be- 
loved Dr E. H. Wells began his life. His two names Eliab, "whose 
father is God" and Horatio are suggestive of the two predominant 
influences of his training, the Hebraic and the Classical. Milner, Cal- 
laway, Sir Wm. Pitt are some of the names that appear in the family 
records of this truly peerless man. Great as were Georgia's other 
sons, Benj. H. Hill, Alex. H. Stephens, Gen. John B. Gordon, Henry 
W. Grady and Robt. Tombs, each distinguished in his own way, ac- 
cording to the standard of true greatness, none surpass this man the 
most unostentatious of men. Ancestry and environment combine 
to make him great. 

At the early age of nineteen (185 5) he was graduated with high- 
est honors from the University of Georgia. During the next two 
years, 1856-1858, he gained new honors and added distinction in the 
U. S. Coast Survey, and 1858, his Alma Mater conferred upon him the 
degree of A. M. The year 1858 is important for another reason, for 
•it was November of this year that Dr. Wells exchanged the hills of 
Georgia for the "Lone Star" State. 

His well-disciplined and eager mind was one that drank deep of 
the Pierian spring, and the year 1860-1861 was spent in study in the 
Medical Department of what is now Tulane University, New Orleans. 
After thestorm of war had subsided, in the year 1867-8 he again took 
up his medical studies and completed the second course in medicine in 
Tulane University, receiving with highest praise the degree M. D.. 
March 1868. 

In "times that tried men's souls" our Dr. Wells proved his worth 
pure gold without alloy in service for his beloved Southland. At this 
ominous period, 1862, he was second Lieut, of the 11th Texas Infantry 
of the Confederate States Army, and in the following year was trans- 
ferred to the Engineering Department. At the close of the war, he 
was 1st Lieut, of Engineers in Trans-Mississippi Department near 
headquarters of Gen. E. Kirby Smith at Shreveport, Louisiana, having 
served with Walker's division in Arkansas and Louisiana. His be- 
loved contemporary, Gen. John B. Gordon, did not serve the Southland 
more brilliantly and well than did the quiet, retiring, brave young of- 
ficer, E. H. Wells. Others have been more famed, but none more ef- 
ficient and devoted to duty. He preferred to serve in quiet paths and 
his retiring nature and extreme modesty positively forbade national 
fame. Although not bv training or taste an orator like Grady or 
Tombs, yet the students and faculty of Baylor College have been 
thrilled by his convincing eloquence on many occasions when he fairly 
and accurately rehearsed some of the stirring scenes of the war be- 
tween the States. His soldierly bearing and noble enthusiasm were 
much noted in his chapel talk, January 11, 1907, on the one hundreth 
anniversary of Lee's birthday. 

Like the great Gen. Lee, Dr. Wells, after the war, turned his at- 
tention to the education of the youth of the Southland. In 1878-9 he 
was Professor of Mathematics in East Texas University, Tyler, Texas, 
where he resided for a number of years. Prom June. 1890 to June. 
1912, he was Professor of Higher Mathematics and Natural Science 
in Baylor College, Belton, Texas, of which he was president from 
1894-96. Despite entreaties of friends to remain in the presidential 
chair, he chose the ouieter duties of a professorship. Dr. Well's abili- 
ty and scholarship received recognition outside his own particular 
sphere, for he was a member of the Texas Academy of Science, and 
also of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 



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No sketch of Dr. E. H. Wells can fail to be an eulogy on the great- 
ness of the man; at the same time it is impossible in a brief space to 
mention all the excellencies of so versatile a scholar. Although he 
gave nineteen years of his life to the profession of civil engineering, 
the last twenty-two have been devoted to teaching, and it is in this 
capacity that the young wcmen of Texas knew him best. Few men 
were so well qualified as Dr. Wells by nature and education to train 
the minds of the young. He who was so constantly taught of the 
Great Teacher is eminently fitted to mould the lives of the young. A 
past member of the Supreme Bench said of him that no man in Texas 
was so well fitted by training and experience for the highest educa- 
tional position in the State. 

His versatile and eager mind found constant delight in the pure 
joys of scholarship, and as a teacher he was both inspiring and mag- 
netic. His scholarship was marked by thoroughness and breadth: 
strength, gentleness, gocdness were the attributes of the man, 

"And as the greatest are, 
In his simplicity, sublime." 

Despite his many attainments, he was modest to the point of dif- 
fidence; as a teacher, sympathetic, optimistic, a loyal friend. In all 
the sciences taught in the College he made wide acquisition, especially 
in the field of geology. He was the pupil and personal friend of the 
honored scientist, Le Conte. Scores of young women of Texas have 
sat under his instruction and everyone of them delight to do him hon- 
or. Pupils sometimes come as "Autumn loiterers," but they left him 
staunch friends and earnest students. It is the sincere belief of his 
colleagues and friends that no one man in Texas has as many loyal 
students friends in the State. 

Dr. Wells gave himself unreservedly not only to his teaching but, 
like the great Amiel, to the multitudinous duties of college manage- 
ment. 

The marriage of Dr. Wells and Miss Annie Elizabeth Lawrence 
took place at Tyler, Texas, July 3, 1862, at the home of Dr. J. M. 
Lawrence, the father of the bride. Dr. Wells being at that time a, 
lieutenant in the regiment of Col. O. M. Roberts, the ceremony was 
attended by General McCulloch, Colonel Roberts, Colonel R. B. Hub- 
bard and other distinguished guests. "Annie Laurie," as she was 
called by her knight, than whom none more valiant ever fought on the 
field of Camelot or Stirling. Her very face seemed a loving benedic- 
tion and the Browning couple met a rival in this loyal, royal pair of 
lovers. 

Dr. Wells spent the last days of his life quietly at his Bel ton home 
ard was laid to rest in his Confederate uniform, in which he was also 
married, on July 11, 1917. 



W. A. WILSON, A. M., D. D. 

Poets and sages in all times have sung the praises of country 
life. The stern discipline attendant upon the cultivation of the "old 
farm" develops sturdy men. On a farm in Cass county, Mo., in the 
year 1852, William Andrew Wilson first saw the light of day. 

Those of us who knew, and therefore loved "Father Wilson, " 
and have heard the affectionate tributes of Dr. Wilson to his beloved 
mother can imagine what his early home life must have been, and how 
potent has been the influence of these worthy parents in the later life 
of their son. 

In his early youth he attended private schools, later entering the 
High School at Pleasant Hill, Mo. Before beginning his college 
course, while still in his teens, he taught several terms in Jackson 
county, near Kansas City. In the year 1872, he gave evidence of the 



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godly training of his Christian mother and father by a profession of 
religion, and by uniting with the church at Pleasant Hill. At this 
Lime, too, he felt called to the ministry. 

In 1873 his praiseworthy ambition for a higher education was re- 
warded by the opportunity of entering college. William Jewell is 
justly proud of this one of her alumni, having conferred upon him the 
degree of A. B. in 1878, that of D. D. in 1900. 

The year 1878 was also the first year of his active duties in the 
ministry, as he had for the next two years the care of the church at 
Lamar, Mo. From this time on, he combined in his life the noblest 
of all callings, the ministry, and thaf of teaching, which President 
Taft says "calls for the greatest sacrifice and is the mightiest instru- 
ment for the uplifting of youth." 

His next position was that of a professorship of Greek and Latin 
in Southwest Baptist College. Although in most of his teaching he 
filled the chair of Psychology and Ethics, Dr. Wilson always gave en- 
thusiastic support to the classics. 

Mr. Will D. Upshaw of Georgia, says the three greatest events 
possible in a man's life are conversion, graduation at college, mar- 
riage. In 1880, the subject of our sketch was married to Miss Carrie 
Smith, Greenwood, Mo., and their hosts of friends in more than one 
state can testify to what a true helpmate the bride of his choice was. 
"Through sunshine and through cloudy weather" they have always 
been as lovingly loyal as on their memorable wedding day on which 
they drove eighty miles in the snow to enter their new home at Bolli- 
var, Mo. At this place where he taught for four years, he was at the 
same time pastor of the First Baptist church. 

In 1884, he accepted the presidency of Pierce City Baptist Col- 
lege for a period of four years. After this he was for eight years 
president of the Baptist College for Young Ladies at Lexington, Mo. 
During this time his health became very much impaired and he was 
advised by physicians to seek a milder climate. Without any solicita- 
tion on his part, he was in 1896, elected to the presidency of Baylor 
College, Belton, Texas. The pure air of Texas plains gave him health, 
and the many needs of the institution over which he had been called 
to preside were a challenge to his power. 

Sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness, were the trinity of good quali- 
ties predominant in Dr. Wilson. As he says, he was "born so near the 
Mason and Dixon line that he could see both sides." This, and the 
fact that he had loved ones in the ranks of both the blue and the gray 
helped to make him broad in sympathies. His generous heart throb- 
bed in sympathy with everything" that makes for the uplift of the lives 
of the individuals with whom he came in contact. It is natural, since 
he had this capacity for sympathy and kindness, that he should have 
scores of friends. It was often noted that no man in his community 
was more often called upon for loving ministry at funerals than Dr. 
Wilson. The distressed, the needy, the discouraged, found in him a 
true friend. Few people more perfectly carry out in their lives the 
injunction of their Lord, "Be ye kind" than did Dr. Wilson. To be 
forgetful of self, to lose sight of one's own interests in the zeal for the 
uplift of an institution and the people with whom we come in contact:, 
is no small thing. 

All his kindness and sympathy were attended by a rare cheerful- 
ness. In the midst of many perplexities he often found his sense of 
humor, the salt that saves. In so brief a sketch it is impossible to 
crystallize into adjectives so many-sided and so lovable a character 
as Dr. Wilson. To have impressed and ennobled the lives of those 
met on the pilgrimage through life is a monument more enduring 
than marble, more lasting than brass. To do this it is necessary to be 
Christlike in spirit. Imbued with such a spirit, Dr. W. A. Wilson 
daily built such a monument. 

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Dr. Wilson closed his long and successful administration as Pres- 
ident of Baylor College in 1911. 

On October 27, 1918, his death occurred suddenly in San Angelo. 
He was buried in Belton. Mrs. Wilson, who shared the responsibili- 
ties and burdens of a President's wife, passed away in Belton, on 
January 3, 1920. 



ERNEST GALE TOWNSEND, D. D. 

Although a Missourian by birth, Dr. Townsend has lived in Texas 
since the early age of seven. His childhood was spent on a Southwest 
Texas ranch, where he was taught by his father. His later school 
days were in San Antonio. He graduated at Baylor University in 
1893, and the Baptist Theological Seminarv of Louisville, Kentuckv, 
1896. 

He held for a short time the Pastorate of the Central Baptist 
church at Dallas, and for three years had charge of the Chapel Car 
work in Texas. 

On March 16, 1897, he married Miss Hollie Harper of Dallas, 
who passed away in 1898, leaving a little son, Gale Harper Townsend. 

He was married to Miss Elli Moore September 13, 1899, in Baylor 
College Chapel. He was for a while pastor of the East Waco Bap- 
tist church. In 1901, he came to Belton as a member of the Baylor 
College faculty. In 1902, he accepted the pastorate of the Belton 
Baptist church, which he held until 1907. He resigned to identify 
himself more directly with Baylor College and the Cottage Home. Hs 
assisted largely in raising funds for the erection oi the Wilson Ad- 
ministration building. 

During the year 1911-1912, he was acting President of the Col- 
lege. Upon Dr. J. C. Hardy's acceptance of the Presidency in 1912, he 
was elected Dean and held this position until September 1918. In 1919, 
he was made vice-president which office he holds at the present. 

Dr. Townsend's service to Baylor College cannot be estimated 
merely in years. He has been of inestimable value in all the recent 
lines of development of the college. He has assisted in collecting 
funds for the buildings, in raising the standard of the college, in se- 
curing new students, in placing the college needs before the denomi- 
nation and in every possible way, has encouraged the efforts of the 
President in making Baylor College the great school that she is at 
present. 

All who have been connected with Baylor College in any way 
since Dr. Townsend became identified with it love and honor him, the 
officers and faculty have found him so approachable, so sympathetic, 
and gentle, that he has endeared himself to all in such a way that he 
is not only the honored vice-president, but a personal friend. 



JOHN CRUMPTON HARDY, A. M., LL. D. 

John Crumpton Hardy was born December 24, 1864, in Newton, 
Newton county, Mississippi. His patriotic ancestors, of Scotch-Eng- 
lish blood, were among the early settlers of the country and were 
prominent in the Colonial epoch of our national history. 

Dr. Hardy obtained his early education in the best common 
schools of Newton county, where he also taught one year before going 
to College. He entered Mississippi College in October, 1885, and was 
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Art in June 1889, with a 
brilliant record to his credit. While taking collegiate courses he 
spent his intervening vacations in teaching summer schools. 



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After graduation from Mississippi College, he was appointed 
Principal of the Carrollton Male Academy, and filled this position 
one session. He was then elected Principal of the High School in the 
City of Jackson, but retained this position only one session, as he was 
promoted to Superintendent of the Jackson City Schools, an incum- 
bency which he continued to hold for nine consecutive years, and 
during this time gained high favor and prestige in the educational 
circles of the State. In 18 93, he received the Master of Arts Degree 
from Mississippi College, and in 190 4, the honorary degree of LL. D. 
from the same institution. He was graduated in law from Millsaps 
College in 1887, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and has also 
taken graduate work in Cornell University and the University of 
Chicago. 

Dr. Hardy was President of the State Teachers' Association of 
Mississippi in 18 99, one of the most successful years in the history of 
the Association. He was appointed by Governor Longino as a member 
of the State Capital Commission, which had in charge the building 
of the five million dollar capitol. He is a member of the State Teach- 
er's Association, the Southern Educational Association, and the Amer- 
ican Forestry Association. He is also a member of several fraternal 
orders. 

In April 1900, he was elected President of the iVgricultural and 
Mechanical College of Mississippi to succeed ex-Governor J. M. Stone, 
and under his able management and administration, the College grew 
rapidly in all its departments. Its fields of usefulness were enlarged 
and its development was marked in all lines of educational exten- 
sion. 

In resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees of the higher 
educational institutions of Mississippi, they declared that future his- 
torians writing the names of Mississippi's great men will place that 
of J. C. Hardy on a parallel with the greatest. The following resolu- 
tion was made by the faculty of A. & M. College, Mississippi, upon the 
resignation of Dr. Hardy: "Resolved, that we regret the contem- 
plated severance of our relations with so efficient an officer, whose 
work is recorded in brick and mortar, in barn and garden, in field 
and pasture, in campus and lecture room, and best of all, in the effi- 
ciency of the five hundred graduates sent out from this institution 
during the last decade." 

His entire life of active service, covering twenty-two years in 
Mississippi was spent with only two institutions. This shows re- 
markable staying qualities. 

With such a record of useful service in Mississippi, it is no won- 
der that Texas has adopted Dr. Hardy. The following extracts are 
from his inaugural address at Baylor College, June, 1912. 

"With an abiding faith in the full co-operation of the Baptists 
of Texas, of the Board of Trustees, of the Alumnae Association, of the 
faculty and student body, and of our many friends throughout the 
State, I shall go forward in this work with joy and gladness. I am 
glad to come bringing with me all that I am, all that I have, and ail 
that I hope to be. 

In the first place, Baylor College must be kept through all time 
a Christian College. The education here must not only be thorough 
and sound from a pedogogical standpoint, but it must be a Christian 
education, giving high ideals of Christian womanhood and service. 

This College must co-operate with every movement that has for 
its purpose the material or intellectual,, or social development of this 
great State, and the spirit of State pride and of patriotism must burn 
as bright and warm upon our altar as can be found within our con- 
fines, for we must not forget that our girls are true daughters of 
Texas, glorying in her past achievements and rejoicing in the splendid 
future that beckons her." 

Page fitty 



R. E. B. Baylor 
and Nephew 



Robert Emmet Bledsoe 
Baylor 





Robert Emmet Baylor 
Bolmes 

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Other Relatives of Judge Baylor's 




Miss Mary M. Bolmes 




Mrs. John S. 
Stewart 




Miss Lucile Bolmes 




Anita and Elizabeth Stewart 




Mrs. Georgia Nell 
Haynes Kay 




Mrs. Bessie 
Baylor Barnett 




Miss Lillian Bolmes 



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The Graves Family 





Henrv T.,ee Graves 
LL. D. 




Prof. B. S. 
Fitzgerald 




G. B. Davis 



Mrs. T. J. White 

Daughter of 

Dr. Graves 



The Clark Family 




t 




Horace Clark 
L.L. D. 





Mrs. Fannie 
Breedlove Davis 




Mrs. Marcia 
Russell Davis 




Gerald Bates 
Fifth generation 
of Davis family 
now in Baylor. 



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The Luther Family 





J. H. Luther 
D. D. 



Mrs. J. H. Luther 




Mrs. Lrmine 
Bagby Sowell 




Doris Jones 




Mrs. Annie Luthe; 
Bagby 




Helen Bagby 




Mrs. Zollie Luther 
Jones 




Alice Bagbv 




Harriet Jones 



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The Wells Family 






Mrs. E. H. Wells 



E. H. Wells 
A. M. M. D. 



Miss Nita Wells 




Mrs. Lillian Wells 
Scofield 



The Wilson Family 




3to> 




W. A. Wilson 
D. D. 



Mrs. W. A. Wilson 



The Townsend Family 








E. G. Townsend 
D. D. 



^'•. :■■■ -' 



Mrs. E. G. 
Townsend 



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Some of Baylor's Trustees 

The administration of Baylor's long line of presidents from 1845- 
1920 would have heen incomplete without the help of those who so 
wisely shaped her policies and controlled her activities. It is impossi- 
ble to give personal sketches of all the faithful members of the Board 
of Trustees, but there are a few whose years of service have made them 
conspicuous in the history 01 the College. 

Jonas Johnston was born in Beaufort District, South Carolina, 
March 11, 1821. In 1851, he moved to Texas and settled in Grimes 
county. He was a faithful pastor in many Texas towns, and an ac- 
tive leader in Associational and Convention work. He was a liberal 
giver to Missions and Education. He contributed to every Baptist 
school of the State. During the later years of his life, he was the 
business manager of the Texas Baptist Herald at Houston. 

He was an early trustee of Baylor College at Independence, 
and served faithfully until his death, April 20, 1881. 

Francis Marion Law, M. D., was born on the fifteenth of May, 
1828, in Sumter District, South Carolina. He graduated at the State 
Medical College of Augusta, Georgia. His death occurred at Baylor 
College, June 10, 1902. 

In 1853, Dr. Law gave up the practice of medicine and entered 
the Baptist ministry. He came to Texas in 1853, and was pastor in 
Houston, Brenham and Anderson, before going to Bryan, where he 
was pastor for twenty-five years. 

When Baylor College was separated from the University at Inde- 
pendence in 1866, Dr. Law was elected one of the trustees. 

Upon the removal of the College from Independence, he was 
a member of the location committee. He was an important factor in 
making the college a success in Belton. Dr. Luther said that during 
the last years of the College at Independence, Dr. Law was its patron, 
firm supporter, and earnest advocate, and on the removal to Belton, 
he gained heart and hope and felt sure the Lord had given a work 
that would bless generations to come. 

During Dr. M. V. Smith's management of the finances, Dr. Law 
made frequent visits to the College. Dr. Smith had perfect confidence 
in his wisdom and when he stamped an improvement with his approv- 
al, Dr. Smith made the movement a success. 

Dr. Law was President of the Board of Trustees for twenty years. 
He came to Baylor for commencement in June, 1902, and "at the 
close of a life ripe and full of years, at the close of the college exer- 
cises, in the midst of his family and friends and in the sheltering 
arms of Baylor, it was most fitting that the spirit of this great and 
good man should have thus passed to the great beyond." 

M. V. Smith, D. D., was born in Lawrence District, South Caroli- 
na, June 16, 1837. The family moved to Texas in 1850, and settled 
near Palestine. He was licensed to preach at the early age of eigh- 
teen and from that time was regularly in the ministry at different 



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Texas towns, until he moved to Belton in 1875, where he became the 
first pastor of the Baptist church. 

When Baylor College was moved from Independence in 1886, he 
was a member of the committee to select a location for the College. He 
helped to raise the required bonus, and secured the location at Bel- 
ton. He was not only instrumental in bringing the College to Bel- 
ton, but to him and Dr. Law the college is largely indebted fr>r its 
remarkable success after its removal. They labored together in pro- 
moting its finances, giving much time and thought to this service. 

He resigned the pastorate of the Belton church in 18 92, and at 
the time of his deatn, February 1, 18 93, he was associated with Dr. J. 
B. Cranfill in the publication of the Baptist Standard. 

J. B. Link, A. M., LL, D., was born in Rockridge county, Virginia, 
May 7, 1825. He was educated in Georgetown College, Kentucky. 

He was under appointment of the Domestic Mission Board, look- 
ing after the army mission work when Lee's surrender put an end to 
Confederate army missions. 

His attention had been directed to Texas as a field for Baptist 
Journalism, and after consultation with Dr. Law, Dr. Burleson, and 
other friends, he issued the Texas Baptist Herald in December, 1865. 
The paper was edited by him over twenty vears and sold in 1886. He did 
a great work in developing Baptist principles and in organizing Bap- 
tist strength. He was a faithful trustee of Baylor College and was 
an active worker in locating the College at Belton. His death oc- 
curred in January, 1894. 

C. R. Breedlove was a trustee of Baylor College at the time of 
its removal from Independence and continued a useful and honored 
member of the Board after the college was located in Belton. He 
would doubtless have remained a trustee as long as he lived had he 
not made vacant his place by removing beyond the limits of the 
State. 

He was born near Danville, Virginia, April 3, 1831, and came to 
Texas in 1846. His father settled near Independence and he gradu- 
ated at Baylor University in 1851. He gave himself to the practice of 
law in which he was very successful and became eminent. He was 
always loyal to his church and denominational interests. He was lib- 
eral with his means and exercised great influence over others in this 
regard. 

His death occurred at his home near Larnar, Missouri, and in his 
death, "Baylor lost a friend of fifty-two years standing. He gave 
thousands of dollars to Baylor College and also to Baylor Universi- 
ty." 

A. J. Harris was born in Talburton, Georgia, January 2 7, 183 9. 
For a quarter of a century Captain Harris attended to the legal busi- 
ness of the College. He was one of the leaders in securing the loca- 
tion of the College at Belton. He was chairman of the building com- 
mittee, and it was his privilege to present the keys of the building to 
Dr. F. M. Law, President of the Board of Trustees, on September 13, 
1886. Captain Harris passed away at his Belton home on January 11. 

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1910. At the chapel hour of the college, a beautiful memorial ser- 
vice was held for Captain Harris. President Wilson presided at the 
service. Baylor indeed felt bereft of one of her staunch and distin- 
guished friends. He had proved himself worthy of praise as an able 
lawyer, a sane legislator and a true patriot. 

Alexander William Mclver was born in Moore county, North Caro- 
lina, August 28, 1836, and died at his home in Caldwell, Texas, Septem- 
ber 19, 1906. 

He came to Texas before the Civil War and located at George- 
town. After teaching school in Lee and DeWitt counties, he then at- 
tended a law school at Brenham, where he obtained a license to prac- 
tice law. 

At the outbreak of the war he enlisted for service. In 1866, he 
and his family settled at Caldwell. 

He was a trustee of Baylor College at Independence and at Bel- 
ton and served continuously for twenty-five years. 

W. R. Maxwell, D. D., was educated at Mercer University and ear- 
ly consecrated his life to Christ. While yet a young minister, he felt 
a call to Texas. Upon entering his new field, his earnest, active in- 
terest and consecrated labor for the religious and educational devel- 
opment of the State, made him one of the notable ministers of the de- 
nomination. 

He early identified himself with the educational movement 
among the Baptist people and was for twelve years an active trustee 
of Baylor College. He was Secretary of the Board for years. 

His death occurred at Cuero, but his remains were brought back 
to Temple, where for twelve years he was pastor and was laid to rest 
June 3, 1900. 

E. E. King, D. D., was born in Mississippi, September 4, 1850. 
He was educated at Mississippi College and the Southern Baptist Sem- 
inary at Greenville, South Carolina. 

He filled important pastorates in Mississippi before coming to 
Texas in 1890. He was pastor of the San Antonio First Church for 
seven years. On January 1, 1897, he went to McKinney as pastor 
and served until a short time preceding his death, March 11, 1919. Dr. 
King was a trustee of Baylor College for more than twentyyears. 

Still others who loyally supported Baylor for many years are G. 
B. Davis, who was the Business Manager at Independence; Dr. W. C. 
Lattimore who was formerly a Belton pastor, traveled for the College 
and was President of the Board; Major Rose of Salado, who contribu- 
ted to the upbuilding of the college; H. J. Chamberlain who was not 
only a trustee, but a generous donor, Colonel C. C. Slaughter whose 
broad interest led to establishing the Education Commission of 1897; 
W. H. McGee who was deeply interested in every phase of the college 
life, and W. T. J. Hartrick who assisted the College financially by 
making its notes acceptable in a time of crisis. 

The women who have honored the college as trustees are Mrs. 
H. L. Kokernot of San Antonio, and Mrs. J. E. Williamson of Austin. 



Page fifty-nine 



A Small Number of Past Trustees 




G. B. Davis 



H. J. Chamberlain 




E. E. King, D. D. 





X7r 




Mrs. H. L. Kokernut 
Baylor's First Woman Trustee. 



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A* 







W. R. Maxwell 
D. D. 



„.- t • 



Judge A. W. 
McTver 




Jonas Johnston F. M. Law, M. D. M. V. Smith, D. D. 




Major A. J. Rose 




Mrs. J. E. Wil- 
liamson 



Page Sixty 




Page Sixty-one 



Trustees and Families 



F. M. Law, M. D. 






Esther Boatright 

Davis 

Granddaughter of 

Dr. Law 





M. V. Smith, D. D Mrs. M. V. Smith 



Rev. Harvey 
Carroll Smith 



Bidie Lee 
Whitesides 



/ 



Major A. J. Rose 




Mrs. Louzelle 
Rose Barclay 





Judge A. W 
Mclver 



Mrs. A. W. Mclver 

Teacher at 

Independence and 

Belton. 





Mrs. Emma 
Mclver Woody 



Mrs. Jule Mclvei 
Wood 



Page sixty-two 



Some Teachers of the Past 

In the history of an old and growing college it is inevitable that 
the faculty must change from year to year. Many can not be men- 
tioned in a published history but their lives are written upon the 
hearts of hundreds of girls whose loyalty and love do not remain un- 
expressed. But through the changing years there are some whose 
policies and devotion have determined in a large way the life of the 
College and whose influence has been peculiarly great. 

Among those who came from Independence to Belton as mem 
bers of the Faculty were Julia Eliza Harris Mclver, who has never 
failed to respond to appeals from Baylor. She assisted in the organi- 
zation of the Alumnae Association in 1879, serving as Chairman of the 
organization Committee. 

Mrs. Elli Moore Townsend graduated and taught at Independ- 
ence and upon the removal of the College to Belton continued as a 
member of the Faculty until 1893, when she resigned to inaugurate 
the Cottage Home plan. She has continued an unbroken relation 
with the College for forty-four years. 

Miss Gertrude Osterhout was a Baylor student for three years 
and a teacher for seventeen years. She exemplified in her early life 
the most beautiful traits of Christian character. She was loved by 
her school mates in Old Independence days for the unfailing kindness 
of her heart and her helpful disposition. Possessed of fine mental 
ability and studious nature, she easily excelled in the class room and 
turned naturally to teaching as a profession. When the College was 
moved to Belton in 1886, she was a member of the faculty where she 
remained faithful to every duty until a few weeks of her death in 
November, 1902. 

In the councils of the faculty, in the school room, in devotional 
meetings, in social gatherings, in quiet personal conferences with 
students Miss Gertie was always the same, kind, considerate, gentle, 
patient friend. Her consecrated, devoted life recalls the sublime 
words of Paul, the Great Apostle; "the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, 
peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and tem- 
perance." 

When Baylor was moved to Belton in 1886, the first teacher of. 
Art in the new home was Miss Maria Brown. At once, teachers and 
pupils alike recognized in her a unique and rare character. Miss 
Brown had a mind of remarkable brilliancy, an artistic temperament, 
and a deeply devout spirit. She possessed to a wonderful degree the 
ability to impart knowledge of her chosen subject and at the same time 
worded precept was followed by a sharp incisive life. Miss Brown was 
well past fifty, with snowy hair and slightly stooped body, when she 
began her work at Baylor yet for seven years she gave herself in un- 
stinted service. Deeply interested in every phase of Christian educa- 
tion, she gave a permanent scholarship for the use of the girls who 
were unable to attend school without financial help. 

Mrs. Anna Hammann Heisig, another of Baylor's daughters was 
a teacher whose influence was lasting and whose perfect culture 
made her one of whom Baylor is proud to claim as one of her rarest 
characters. 

Rev. T. T. Marten was a professor of Mathematics in the early days 
at Belton. His missionary spirit made him of great power and inspira- 
tion in the religious work of the College. 

Mr. G. H. Rowe was the first Director of the School of Music at 
Belton. Mrs. Rowe was the first assistant teacher of piano. Since 
the death of Mr. Rowe at Ennis, Mrs. Rowe has left Texas for Lexing- 
ton, Mass. Her loyalty to Baylor has been expressed in her will. 



Page sixty-three 



Mr. C. P. Fountaine was one of Baylor's excellent English teach- 
ers. He and his wife have continued their interest in Baylor and the 
Cottage Home since their removal to A. & M. College. 

No more forceful personality has been on the Faculty of Baylor 
College than Miss Clara Allison Bixby who was Principal, and was 
teacher of Art, Economics, History and English during the sixteen years 
of her service 1893-1909. The variety of her interests, the diversity of 
her talents and the prodigious amount of work she could do made her 
indispensable to the President. 

Miss Bixby was preeminently a teacher of Literature. Those who 
were in her classes feel even yet a glow of pride that Miss Bixby was 
their teacher. Their appreciation of Literature was due not alone 
to her special method of interpretation but to the influence of her 
strong personality. She is remembered with tenderest affection by 
hundreds and hundreds of girls. 

Since leaving Baylor College, Miss Bixby's life has been one of the 
greatest activity. She is instructor of Business English and Journal- 
ism in the Bryan High School of Dallas, is president of the Business 
Women's Club and is active in Literary Clubs and church work. 

From 18 90-1895 Miss Annie R. Storts was a member of the Fac- 
ulty. In 1909, she returned to accept the position of Principal. Af- 
ter three years of efficient service she resigned to become Dean of the 
Women of Ouchita College. 

Mrs. Martha Nash will be remembered as serving in many capaci- 
ties. She was principal and teacher. She also traveled in the Inter- 
est of the College. 

Mrs. Lillie James Meyer and Mrs. Mary McGee McGregor were 
members of the Music Faculty in their Alma Mater. Mrs. Meyer is an 
active church worker of Houston, where she is President of the Bap- 
tist work of that District. Mrs. McGregor of Dallas, gave the first two 
hundred and fifty dollars toward the endowment of Baylor College. 

Miss Mary Pettus Thomas is dear to all girls Who knew her dur- 
ing her sixteen years as teacher of Modern Languages. She was a 
lovely character and possessed such a charm of manner that made her 
a favorite and greatly loved. Her long and excellent service to Baylor 
was ended by her resignation to accept a similar position in a State 
Normal School of Tennessee in 1912. Miss Thomas published a vol- 
ume of Poems while in Baylor and was an enthusiastic organizer and 
leader of the U. D. C. College Chapter. 

Mrs. Barbara Hawkins Smith and Mrs. Mary McCauley Maxwe'l 
were both Alumnae who became Baylor teachers and whose loyalty 
and interest in all her plans for the future did not end with their 
resignation from the faculty. 

Miss Emma C. King of McKinney, Texas, was a most valuable 
teacher of English for a dozen years. Purity and sweetness charac- 
terized her nature. Her thoughts, her purposes, her daily conversa- 
tions were pure and sweet. To many young women in her classes her 
life was a bright, white star of inspiration. Those girls still look 
back to that beautiful star and renew their aspirations and rededicate 
their lives under its pure glow, though they have been gone from Bay- 
lor for years. 

The class of 1895 gave to Baylor a splendid noble woman for a 
teacher, counsellor, and friend of all classes of students. The be- 
loved "Miss Dowell," Mrs. R. K. Maiden of Kansas City, was profes- 
sor of Greek and Latin for nearly a quarter of a century. Her life 
touched the life of every girl in College during these years. She loved 
the girls — all girls — and believed in them and sought by every means 
in her power to inspire them to noble living. For the last ten years 
of her connection with the College she was easily the most universally 
beloved teacher in the school. 

Professor W. M. W. Splawn was teacher and Dean of Baylor 
during the years of her greatest improvements and deserves the credit 
of having accompished much in raising the standard of the College. 



Page sixty -four 



Some Teachers of the Past 




Mrs. J. E. II. Mc- 
Iver 




Miss Gertrude 
Osterhout 




Miss Clara Bixby 




Miss Maria 
Brown 




Mrs. Lillie James 
Meyer 





: 




G. H. Kowe 



Mrs. G. H. Rowe 



Mise Jnnia Osterhout Miss Annie R. Storts 





Mrs. Martha Nash 



Mrs. Mary McGee 
McGregor 




Miss Mary Pettus 
Thomas 



Mrs. Barbara 
Hawkins Smith 





Mrs. Mary Mc- 
Cauley Maxwell 



Miss Emma C. 
King 



Mrs. Martha 
Dowell Maiden 



W. M. W. Splawn 



Page sixty-five 




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Page sixty-six 



Baylor's Donors 



The great possibilities that lie before Baylor College today are 
largely the result of gifts. The methods of raising funds have been 
most varied in the history of the College. Donations have been made 
to satisfy more particularly the needs of buildings and scholarships. 
Stirring appeals have been made to individuals, churches, associa- 
tions, and the denomination as a whole, by the earnest efforts of offi- 
cers of the Alumnae, students, and friends of Baylor. 

Five of the present buildings on the campus are representative 
of some great donor. 

To Ely-Pepper Hall, Mr. J. H. Pepper made a gift of ten thous- 
and dollars in memory of his wife, Rosanna Pepper. Mrs. Pepper was 
born October 14, 1850. She became a member of the Baptist church 
at the age of sixteen and continued a most devoted and faithful mem- 
ber throughout her life. Like the woman of Shunem, she kept her 
home ever ready to receive God's messengers; like Sarah of old, she 
entertained strangers and ministered to their needs with her own 
hands; like Dorcas, she was known and loved for her good works with 
the poor and was greatly mourned at her death. 

She considered herself a stewardess of all God gave her. She 
wanted her property disposed of in a way that would honor God and 
bless the world through all the coming ages. 

The Wilson Administration Building was made possible by a 
gift of ten thousand dollars from Mr. and Mrs. William Reeves in 
memory of their daughter, Alma Reeves Langham. Both Mrs. 
Pteeves^ and her daughter were Baylor girls. In appreciation of this 
large gift, the auditorium of the building was named, Alma Reeves 
Chapel. 

Ferguson Hall shared largely in a twelve thousand dollar gift 
made by C. O. and Mary Ferguson. C. O. Ferguson was born in Ma- 
son county, Missouri, in August 183 8. He moved to Texas and set- 
tled in Milam county, where he was married to Miss Mary A. Schaffer. 

In 1869 they moved to Bell county, and lived at Paririe Dell. 
After the loss of their only child, they devoted their lives to raising- 
orphan children, caring for as many as seven at a time; and upon 
the location of Baylor at Belton, became interested in the education 
of girls. They sacrificed in many ways, often denying themselves 
pleasures and even necessities, that they might put more into Chris- 
tian education. 

Their gift represents the entire life work of two consecrated 
people. His death occurred October 26, 1911, and Mrs. Ferguson 
passed away in 1914. 

Upon the death of Mrs. Nannie E. Heard of Omaha, it was made 
known that she had left eleven thousand dollars of her estate for Bay- 
lor College. This generous gift led to the building of Heard Hall. 



Page sixty-seven 



Mr. J. C. Stribling of Llano, made a gift of fifty thousand dollars 
toward the erection of Ruth Stribling Hall, which was named in honor 
of his daughter, Ruth, a Baylor girl whose life is beautifully conse- 
crated to Christian service. She is now paying the salary of a foreign 
missionary whom she has chosen as her representative on the Foreign 
Field. 

Mr. and Mrs. Stribbling live on a West Texas ranch and they are 
active workers in denominational interests. It is Mr. Stribling's cus- 
tom to have a camp meeting each year on the ranch, that his ranch- 
men may have the opportunity of hearing our great preachers. 

To Burt Hall, Mr. R. E. Burt of Dallas, made a contribution of one 
hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Burt has been blessed with great 
wealth. He gave to all causes when his means were small and has 
continued this giving as the Lord has blessed him. His heart is in Mis- 
sions at home and abroad. Many missionaries are on the Foreign 
Field today because of his generosity. The cause of Christian edu- 
cation has been enriched because young men and women have been 
given the help they needed most to complete their education, thereby 
fitting themselves for greater usefulness. 

Mrs. Burt has shared equally in the joy of giving with Mr. Burt. 
Her life is graciously given in service. While living in Houston, she 
was active in church work and especially in the organization of a 
large Sunday school class of more than one hundred young married 
women, 

Mrs. W. R. Alexander and Mr. Joseph Burt, daughter and son of 
Mr. and Mrs. Burt have also been active and generous in the great 
work of our denomination. 

REV. J. R. CLARK. 

Born in Putman county, Georgia, 1832. Graduated from Mer- 
cer university in 1850. Began ministry in 1856. Later he moved to 
Texas. In 1861 he was elected Captain in the Confederate Army. In 
1868 he was called to the Alvarado association to take charge of a 
CoUege at Cleburne. He was pastor of the Baptist church there 
from 1868 to 1880. In 1873 he resigned as president and was pastor 
of the Alvarado Baptist church for eight years. In 1881 he accepted 
a school at Alvarado, and taught there three years. In 188 5 he ac- 
cepted the call of the Hillsboro Baptist church. He died April 2, 18 93, 
ar Hillsboro. The Baptist women of Hillsboro, led by Mrs. E. C. Pro- 
thro, one of his former students, established a memorial scholarship 
for him here at Baylor College. 



Page sixty-eight 



Baylor's Donors 




J. H. Pepper 




Mrs. J. H. Pepper 






William Reeves 



Mrs. Mattie 
Reeves and Alice 
Reeves Lang-ham 



""^k^ 



Mrs. Alma Reeves 
Langham 






R. E. Burt 



Mrs. R. E. Burt J. c. Striblinj 




Mrs. J. C. Striblin 






C. O. Ferguson 



Mrs. C. O. 
Ferguson 



Mrs. Nannie E. 
Heard 



Page sixty-nine 



The Loan Fund 



The Loan Fund is now being advocated in State schools, denomi- 
national schools and Theological seminaries. Thousands of dollars 
are being spent in the education and training of the young people of 
Texas. We hear much about the conservation of our natural resourc- 
es but of far greater importance is the conservation of human resourc- 
es. The waste of soil or forest, or mine may in some measure be re- 
paired but not so the waste of human possibilities. 

The Loan Fund of Baylor College is held in trust by Baylor Col- 
lege Trustees and has been designated by the Baptist General Conven- 
tion as the Elli Moore Townsend Fund. While Mrs. Townsend has 
done much for young women in founding the Cottage Home plan, the 
Loan Fund is a far greater memorial to her life of service than one 
in concrete, stone, or marble. As a result of this fund, hundreds have 
received College education who otherwise would have been denied the 
opportunity. 

One only needs to know the personal history of those who have 
received the benefits of the fund to be convinced that it is a great 
investment and worthy of generous and sacrificial giving. The young 
women who have been educated in Baylor College by the means of the 
Loan Fund have gone out as useful members in the professional and 
business world, as religious leaders, and Christian homemakers in 
our own State and foreign lands. 

The denomination can not afford to lose for the Master the tre- 
mendous influence of the many splendid young women who desire help 
to educate themselves. They are needed to conserve our denomina- 
tional loyalty, to conserve our influence in the state schools, and to 
encourage others of their communities to equip themselves for more 
efficient service. If the spirit of the Master is made the dominating 
influence of their lives, if they are impressed with the spirit of real 
service along with their college training they will be prepared to ren- 
der that service which is needed in our churches and schools. 

According to the present plan, the Loan Fund has three divis- 
ions: the Permanent Fund, of which only the interest is used, the 
Floating Fund, which is paid by the borrower and reloaned, and the 
irregular annual contributions. 

The first and second divisions are closely related, the second, in 
fact, growing out of the first. To illustrate: The sum of $l,875.0u, 
given to the Permanent Fund, remains for all time, paying the expen- 
ses of a young woman by means of the yearly interest it draws. At 
eight per cent, it pays one hundred and fifty dollars per year, which 
will send one girl to college one year. In four years, the beneficiary 
will have completed her college course. She will then be an educated 
woman and able to support herself. The first four years, after her 
graduation, she is required to pay to the Floating Fund the amount 
loaned her, a fourth each year, which pays the expenses of another 
girl. During these four years, therefore, two girls are in college. 
When the second girl finishes her course, there are two girls paying 



Page seventy 



for two others by returning the money they have borrowed. The re- 
sult thus accumulates rapidly through the years. At the end of twen- 
ty y^ars, fifteen young women will have received a full college course, 
ej,ch will have thus been made capable, efficient, and often times self- 
sustaining women; or sixty young women will have had one year in 
college to better fit them for life's responsibilities. 

The third division of the Loan Fund is kept up by the small, ir- 
regular contributions made every year. Beneficiaries of this fund 
are also required to return the loans made them so that even this part 
of the fund is in a manner permanent. 

The Loan Fund is the result of large and small donations from 
individuals and organizations. Quite a number of permanent funds 
have boen given. Most of the permanent funds as well as the smaller 
donations are representations of some life that has responded to the 
appeals made for the Fund. 

The Alumnae Association of Baylor resolved on February 17, 
1893 that they would increase their Loan Fund to five thousand dol- 
lars ana it would be known as the M. V. Smith Memorial Fund, which 
they declared was a small but willing and earnest tribute to the mem- 
ory of one of the best friends Baylor and the Alumnae Association ever 
had. 

The first one thousand dollars contributed to the Loan Fund was 
bv a Presbyterian friend in memory of Mrs. Mary Crawford of Galves- 
ton Her pastor wrote thus beautifully of her service: "Perhaps no 
one of her means ever did so much charity. Her brave, independent 
spirit bore with wonderful fortitude and cheerfulness her long hard 
struggle with poverty. She supported herself and her child with her 
needle She was for a number of years one of the active workers in 
the Protestant Orphan's Home, to which a legacy was given in her 
memory by her daughter, Mrs. Dovie. God called her home in the 
midst of her devoted service and then ended a useful life whose influ- 
ence will be felt by hundreds through all eternity." 

Miss Amy Bentlev was the first student to travel in the interest 
of the Loan Fund. She began her efforts to raise a scholarship in 
18 99 The scholarship was named in memory of a beautiful Baylor 
girl Christine Hathaway, who was born April 2, 1882, m Rapids Par- 
ish, Louisiana, converted at the age of nine and died at the Cottage 
Home February 1, 1909. 

An example that should live in the memory of Texas Baptists and 
influence their giving is that of Mrs. Fannie Ramseur of Paris, Texas. 
Upon the death of her husband it was possible for her to make dona- 
tions from the money that he had left to her. One of her gifts was to 
{■he Elli M Townsend Loan Fund and another was to the Ely-Peppei 
Hall Both came at a time of sore need and in a way that showed the 
great heart of the giver. God has given this world fewer women of 
a more loyal, lovable and useful life. 

Mr H J Chamberlain for many vears a trustee of Baylor College 
was an earlv friend of the Cottage Home plan. He encouraged and 
helped to finance it in its beginning. He made many small gifts 
through the years, but his largest gift was three thousand dollars to 
the Loan Fund in memorv of his wife, Mary Ferris Chamberlain, who 
died January 27, 1903. The record of her life may be given m one 
word, self-sacrificing. And it was a sunny, sweet, and cheerful lite, 
one of the sort which warms and brightens all who come under tn. 
sphere of its influence. Her serene faith upheld her in the midst oi 
her final suffering and gave her that triumph over death, which is ac- 



Page seventy-one 



corded only to those whose spiritual eyes piercing the dark curtain 
before them, can see beyond the glorious resurrection, the newer 
life. 

Fannin Woodyard Johnson lived a life of greatest usefulness. 
He was born January 24, 1851, and passed to his Eternal home April 
14, 1920. He was known in Pecos, and in all the great West Texas 
domain as "Uncle Woody." He became a leading ranchman and gave 
liberally to home enterprises, churches and education. He is remem- 
bered as a cheerful giver who spent his fortune largely to assist others. 

His gift of five thousand dollars to the Loan Fund of Baylor Col- 
lege was a part of his great liberality. On the twentieth anniversary 
of the Cottage Home, he made a visit and expressed his interest in the 
college and in the education of Texas girls. 

Mrs. Blli Moore Townsend's mother, Mrs Indiana Keys Moore has 
a scholarship of five thousand dollars in her memory. Her daughter, 
Mrs. Lucile Moore Walter, has given largely to the Endowment Fund. 
In memory of Mrs. Moore's sister, Mrs. Tennie Keys Embree, Mrs. Gil- 
Ian Embree Cresswell has begun a scholarship. In 1914, there was 
given in memory of Mrs. Annie Killough Moore a scholarship of five 
thousand dollars. Mrs. Eliza Killough Faires has contributed to 
the fund. These are all close relatives of Mrs. Townsend who has 
inspired so many to make donations. 

The Ora Sherrin Fund was provided by Ora Sherrin, whose fail- 
ing health prevented her finishing her college training. She desired 
that this fund be used for girls who should need it in case of illness or 
other emergency. 

Mrs. Lillian Martin Nelson, a graduate of Baylor and the State 
University, made a donation in the name of her little son, Gale Har- 
per Nelson, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Cottage Home, 
which laid the foundation for a permanent fund. 

In the beginning of a new enterprise, the friends who understand 
and sympathize, and help, and pray are like the waters of the Gulf 
stream that gives life and warmth to the frozen regions of the far 
away North. Such an one is Mrs. Janie Sanders who represents all 
that is gracious in woman. In the early days of the struggle for a 
Loan Fund for Baylor College, she began to give, and has continued 
through all these years. Her last gift will be the means to establish 
a home for retired Baylor missionaries and retired Baylor workers. 
Thus, she will perpetuate the good work begun and many will have 
cause to call her blessed. 

Mrs. Ola Dewese Gammon made a gift of one thousand dollars 
to the Cottage Home building. She was an earnest church worker 
of Kerrville. Her faithful service to her church and her deep inter- 
est in all lines of work made her life one of great influence in her 
own community and a blessing to those who now enjoy the results of 
her giving. 

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Cowan of Pecos, were so impressed with the 
needs of the Cottage Home that they gave their means at the most 
critical time, when their own obligations seemed heavy. The sacri- 
fice of a California trip made it possible for the Cottage Home to re- 
ceive a donation from them. 

The Lilly Reed Scholarship was given by Mrs. Thomas C. Reed 
of Ladonia, in memory of her daughter, Lilly, whose beautiful young 



Page seventy-two 



life made her mother wish to bless the lives of self-sacrificing girls 
and thus perpetuate the memory of one who was called away so 
young. 

"A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches." The 
name of George W. Carroll is a synonym for generosity and true no- 
bility of character. He and his father and mother will always be re- 
membered and loved for their generous gifts to Baylor University, 
and he and his sisters, Mrs. Minnie King at Waco, and Mrs. Alice Keith 
of Beaumont, for their gifts to Baylor College Loan Fund. This con- 
tinued friendship to all denominational work is a worthy example of 
the lasting influence of a father like theirs — unaffected by wealth 
except to deepen consecration, and to find new paths of service. 

Miss Stella Ross whose tragic death occurred in San Antonio, 
May 17, 1917, has left a memorial of her unselfish life that should be 
an inspiration to all who are interested in Christian education. 

Having been left fatherless and motherless at the early age of 
thirteen with the entire care and responsibility of her younger sisters 
and brother, she managed in a most wonderful way. She constantly 
held before them the highest ideals and deprived herself of many of 
life's privileges that they might be educated. She lived to see the 
children for whom she had joyfully sacrificed, become men and wom- 
en in the communities in which they live. One of her brothers, Dr. 
A. A. Ross of Lockhart, is one of the foremost physicians of South 
Texas, and an earnest Christian worker. 

Her heroic life made her heart go out in deepest interest and 
sympathy to girls who must struggle against great odds. It was her 
desire that her life should continue to be used of the Lord after her 
death in the promotion of Christian education. She had talked this 
matter over with Dr. Ross shortly before her going away, little think- 
ing that she was making her final suggestions. She was in an auto- 
mobile accident in San Antonio which resulted in her immediate 
death. She died without a will but her brother knew her desire and 
all her heirs gladly waived their rights to her estate and it was given 
to Baylor College as a Memorial Fund. 

By good business management on the part of Dr. Ross, the value 
of the estate left by Miss Stella had increased to fifteen thousand dol- 
lars. On June 7, 1920, Dr. Ross by virtue of the authority vested in 
him by the other members of the family gave fifteen thousand dollars 
all in cash to the Trustees of Baylor College. 

The money is to be invested in first-class real estate securities 
and the interest only, lent to deserving girls who shall measure up to 
the very highest standards. Twenty-five per cent of the interest may 
be used as a fund not to be repaid. As the loans are repaid the same 
shall be added to the principal and invested in the same way until the 
principal shall amount to thirty thousand dollars. After the Memor- 
ial Fund shall have reached the thirty thousand dollar mark, it shall 
then be optional with the Board as to whether the fund shall be in- 
creased above this. After this time, the amount repaid may be loaned, 
as well as that of yearly interest. 

It is impossible to name all who have given to the different build- 
ings, and the Loan Fund. Mrs. Virginia Westbrook, whose useful 
life is being written by a Baylor girl gave a scholarship. Others who 
have given money and service are, Mrs. Rachel Duck of Pleasanton, 
Mrs. Cornelia Gale Townsend, mother of Dr. E. G. Townsend, Mr. and 
Mrs. R. H. Hicks. 

Page seventy- three 



Contributors to Baylor's Loan Fund 





Mrs. Mary Cham- 
H. J. Chamberlain taerlain 






Mrs. Indiana 
Keys Moore 




Mrs. Annie 
Killough Moore 




Mrs. Fannie Ram- 
seur 



Miss Mildred 
Mihills 




,.' . 



Mrs. Lucile Moore 
Walter 





Mrs. Tennessee 
Keys Enibree 



Mrs. Gillian 
Embree Creswell 






Mrs. Eliza 
Killough Faires 



George W. Carroll Mrs - Minnie Carroll 

Kin;? 




Mrs. Alice Carroll 

Keith 



Mrs. Janle 
Sanders 



Miss Stella Ross 



Mr. Virginia 

Westbrook 



Page seventy -four 



Baylor's Daughters 



This is not a complete chapter on the achievements of Baylor's 
daughters but it is typical of her great family. 

The students of Baylor's seventy-five years have come not only 
from every part of our own state and other states but from Canada, 
Brazil, Mexico, Hawaii, Wales, England, France, Germany, Scotland, 
Sweden, Bohemia, Poland, China and Syria. There have oeen girls or 
varying types. They cannot be differentiated from other girls except 
as they nave responded to the environment and purpose of Baylor. 

There are those who have achieved success in a literary way, 
those who have become club and civic leaders, those who are mission- 
aries at home and abroad, those who are serving in many professions 
and the still greater number who are homemakers. 

Mrs. Fannie May Barbee Hughs of Wharton, was recently elected 
President of the Texas Women's Press Association. She is a member 
of the Texas Historical Society, National Geographical Society, State 
Child Welfare Association and other literary and civic organizations. 

When serving as the State Chairman of the Literary Committee of 
the T. F. W. C, she became a member of the General Federation Lit- 
erature Committee and won national recognition as a writer by being 
placed on the Biennial Program in New York City in 1916. Many 
State Universities and Clubs are using her outline for study of the Old 
Testament. Her latest literary achievement is a volume of essays 
and poems, entitled "Fragments." 

Mrs. Winifred Cheaney Mullins has been able to devote a part of 
her literary talent to the writing of a little book, "Chapters from Life,' 
the sale of which has made it possible for five hundred girls to enter 
Baylor College. 

Mrs. Emily Davant Embree has written two books, 'A Lesser 
Light," and "Mine Inheritance," both of which are given by the author 
to help ambitious girls make part of their college expenses. 

Mrs. Maud Hamlet Perkins has been successful as a short story 
writer, also Mrs. O'llie Cochran Davis. Other writers are Mrs. Ethel 
Lee Scott, Mrs. Zollie Luther Jones, Mrs. Birdie Rugely Barton and 
Mrs. Fannie Davidson Bryan, the latter has gotten out a book of Sun 
Beam programs. 

Miss Annie Pace is at present one of the editors of the Sunday 
magazine portion of the New York American. Dr. Lula Pace, after 
receiving her Ph. D. degree at Chicago, traveled in Europe and spent 
a year studying in Bonn, Germany. Since 1903, she has been assis- 
tant in Biology and later Professor of Botany in Baylor University. 
She has published several papers in the Botanical Gazette and in Bay- 
lor University Bulletin. 

Mrs. Pearl Pace Buchanan of Temple, is the present secretary of 
the Student Aid Association. 

Mrs. Mary McClellan O'Hair was elected president of the Texas 
Women's Press Association in 190 9, after having served as treasurer, 
corresponding secretary and vice-president. She is a member of the 
National Editorial Association, also vice-regent of her local D. A. R. 
Chapter. 

Mrs. Marguerite Hudnall Greenwood is a professional reader, 
having done Chautauqua and Lyceum work, as well as other public 
entertaining. 

Mrs. Kittie Lackey Stokes raised the funds for establishing the 
Missionary Training School at Fort Worth. 

Mrs. Emma Mclver Woody has served on the Central Committee 
of the W. M. U. of Kentucky since 1890. She has been chairman and 
co-chairman of the Board of Managers of the Baptist Women's 



Page seven ty -five 



Missionary Training School of Louisville, since its establishment in 
1908. She served as chairman of the Building Committee when their 
beautiful building was erected in 1916. 

Mrs. Annie Breaker Court of Houston, has been a denominational 
leader in her district, serving as District President for many years. 

Baylor College has stood for the advancement of every patriotic 
movement that has been made in Texas. Her history is so related 
to the history of our great state it is befitting her daughters should 
interest themselves in patriotic endeavor. Mrs. Townsend, who has 
been associated with Baylor longer than anyone in the state has be- 
come an active member of the W. C. T. U., the U. D. C, the D. A. R., 
the D. R. T. and the Texas Women's Press Association, that she might 
impress girls who come to Baylor with the importance and opportuni- 
ties offered by these organizations. The D. R. T. is only statewide 
but membership in the Daughters of the Republic of Texas should be 
prized above all others. The objects of the organization are: to per- 
petuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved 
and maintained the independence of Texas; to encourage historical re- 
search into the earliest records of Texas, and to promote the celebra- 
tion of March the second, Independence Day, and April 21, San Jacinto 
Day. 

The society was organized that it might perpetuate history, make 
history, and inspire the multitude with patriotism. "Rightly under- 
stood and correctly comprehended, the history of Texas is unequaled 
for its variety of incidents, its flavor of adventure, its lessons of en- 
durance, patriotism and valor, its heroic achievements in the crisis of 
battle and its splendid triumph in the noble arena of peaceful indus- 
try." 

All of these organizations have had Baylor representatives. 

Mrs. Carey McNelly Wroe has served as a State officer of the U. 
D. C. and as Custodian of the Museum of the U. D. C. Mrs. Wroe was a 
student at Baylor College when it was severed from the University in 
1866. Her daughter, Irene McNelly, was a Baylor girl, whose sad 
death occurred while she was a student at Independence. Mrs. Wroe 
has given a scholarship to Baylor in memory of her daughter. As 
one of Baylor's most gifted daughters. Mrs. Wroe has been prominent 
as a speaker, a writer and a patriotic leader. 

Mrs. Florence Lona- Fall of Houston, has been a leader in all pa- 
triotic activities. She has served as President of the Texas Federa- 
tion of Women's Clubs. President of the Fourth District of the Texas 
Women's Press Association; Chairman of Conservation, of Lectures, 
of Club Extension; member of the Board and Treasurer of the Y. W. C. 
A. of Houston; President of the City Federation of Women's Clubs of 
Houston; Editor-in-chief of a book, "Key to the City of Houston"; 
member of the Board of the Girls' Training School at Gainesville: 
President of the Women's Auxiliary of the Baptist Sanitarium of 
Houston, and is now President of the Houston Art League. 

Mrs. Stella Jones Christian, a teacher of Bavlor at Independence, 
ranks as one of the most gifted Texas women. She has been Record- 
ing Secretarv of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, has served on 
many U. D. C. committees, was President of the Texas Woman's Press 
Association, and is the author of the Historv of the Texas Federation of 
Women's Clubs from its organization to the completion of its second 
decade. 

Mrs. Clara Heflev Potts is also a leader in club work, having re- 
centlv been elected Vice-Regent of the State D- A. R. 

Baylor was not a pioneer in sending out missionaries as Texas, 
herself, was a missionary field in the early days of Baylor. It was in 
1880. when the Texas Baotist Convention met in the old Capitol, the 
year before it was burned, that Annie Luther Baaby went before the 
examining- board as an applicant for Foreign Mission work. She was 
later appointed as a missionary to Brazil, and has the distinction of 
being Baylor's first foreign missionary- Others have followed until 
Baylor is now represented in China, Africa, Brazil Argentina, Mexico 
and Cuba. 



Page seventy- six 



Baylor's Daughters 






Mrs. Fannie May 
Barbee Hughs 



Mrs. Winifred 
Cheaney Mullins 



Mrs. Emily 
Davant Embree 




Mrs. Maude 
Hamlet Perkins 




Mrs. Ollie Coch- 
ran Davis 



w* * »■ 



Lula Pace, Ph. D. 



Mrs. Pear] Pace 
Buchanan 





Mrs. Kittie 
Lackey Stokea 



Mrs. Marguerite 
Hudnall 
Greemvood 




Mrs. Mary 

McClelland O'Hair 

on entering- 

Baylor 




Annie Pace 




Mrs. Emma Mc- 
Iver Woody 




Mrs. Leila 

McClelland 

Johnson 




Mrs. Ethel Lee 
Scott 




Mrs. Fannie 
Davidson Bryan 



Page seven ty -seven 





; 'f^ ; ■ 



Irene McNelly 



Mrs. Carey McNelly Wroe 






Mrs. Clara Hefley 
Potts 



Mrs. Florence 
Long- Fall 



Mrs. Stella Jones 
Christian 



Page seven ty -eight 



Mothers and Daughters 




Page seventy -nine 



MISSIONARIES 




Mrs. Annie Luther 
Bagby 



I 




Miss Rosa Golden 





Mrs. Sallie 
Johnson Key 



'■ '-vV- .■•* 



v.. ^/ 



Mrs. Bertha Mills 
Pettigrew 





Miss Bertha 
Cannon 





Mrs. Ermine 
Bagby Sowell 




Miss Margaret 
Howell 




Miss Hannah Fair Miss Mary C. 

Sallee Demarest 



Vecie King 




Zemma Hair 



Page eighty 



Mrs. Paulo 
Baracio Tooms 




Mrs. Minnie 
Sauernan Cotton 



Miss Annie Laurie 
Sykea 




Mamie Robinson 




Alice Bagby 



Miss Caroline 
Miller 




Grace Elliott 




Nannie David 



The Higdon Family 




i 



Mrs. Martha 
Rebecca Higdon 





Mrs. Etfic 
Higdon Ozburn 




Mrs. Elli 
Whitfield 
Strickland 



Mrs. Annie 
Higdon Whitfield 




Mrs. Sara 
Whitfield Boyd 



The Jenkins Sisters 




Ruby J. Tuttle Ella J. Rlyander 

Dora Jenkins Smith Birdie J. Slaughter Bessie J. Slaughter 



Page eighty-one 




Mrs. Pearl Dowell 
Provine 




Mrs. Sadie Dowell 
Kins 



The Dowell Family 




Mrs. J. S. Dowell 




Mrs. Martha 
Dowell Maiden 





Mrs. Mamie 
Dowell Ditto 




Mrs. -Jessie Dowell 
Bryant 



Miss Ruth Dowell 




Prof. John P. 

Hillyer 

Teacher for many 

years. 



The Hillyer Family 




Mrs. Hattie 

Woodruff 

Hillyer 

Teacher of the 

past and present. 





Elizabeth Hillyer Louise Hillyer 

Baylor sisters representing the 

fourth generation 



Page eighty-two 



The Bagby Family 



%1 




M i 





Dr. W. B. Bagby Mrs. AV B. Bagby 



Ermine Bagby 
Sowell 



Taylor Bagby 
Childhood Picture 




\ ■ 



Wilson Bagby 
When a Bad 






Oliver Bagby 



Alice Bagby 



Helen Bagby 




Mrs. Annie Luther Bagby went to Brazil in De- 
cember, 1880. 

Received her diploma from Baylor College 1879. 

Ermine Bagby Sowell received diploma 1903. 

Alice Anne Bagby received her diploma 191S 
from Bavlor College and Training School diploma 
in 1920. 

Helen Edna Bagby will receive diploma in 1921. 

Taylor C. Bagby went back to Santos, Brazil, in 

November, 1914, and was appointed as missionary of 

Albert Bagby the Southern Bapitst Convention in the summer of 

1918. He married Miss Frances Adams of White 

Stone, Virginia, who is now on a furlough with three little sons and 

one baby daughter. 

Miss Ermine Bagby married Rev. S. M. Sowell of Virginia, who 
was sent as pioneer missionary to the Argentine Republic in 1903. 
She has two sons and one daughter and lives in Buenos Aires, Argen- 
tine. Mr.-,. Ermine Bagby Sowell will aid in the training of young 
women for Christian service. 

Miss Helen Bagby will receive her degree from Baylor College 
and return to give her life in service toBrazil, just as all the other 
members of her family have done. It is a most happy combination 
of celebrations this year of 1920. This marks the 75th year of the 
history of Baylor College and the 4 0th year of missionary work of 
Baylor College women in South America. The third generation of 
the Bagby family is in this country in school. 



Page eighty-three 



Baylor Families 

There have been many interesting families connected with Bay- 
lor's history, some who have given her loyal patronage through the 
third and fourth and fifth generations. Baylor's Alumnae take pride 
in the fact that Baylor has never stood still, she has never gone "back 
ward and she has never lacked the loyalty of her patrons and friends. 

A. family whose history has been identified with the College 
for nearly seventy-five years is the Moore family. The name of Eliza 
Moore Cook appeared in the Freshman class of 1851. In 1876 Eliza 
Cummins Moore entered Baylor at Indenpendence. She belonged to 
one of the oldest and most prominent families of Texas. Her paternal 
grandfather, J. H. Moore, was commanding Colonel of the troops which 
made the first fight for Texas independence at Gonzales, October 2, 
1835. Her grandmother, Eliza Cummins Moore, was of Huguenot de- 
scent. Her father was an Alcalde under the Mexican government. 
With such an inheritance, Eliza early manifested her ability as a great 
manager, especially in times of emergency. She was persistent in 
carrying out her plans and wishes. Such qualities have been charac- 
teristic of her throughout her more than forty years' service in Baylor 
College. 

When she attended school at Philadelphia, she changed her name 
to Elli to prevent confusion of names as several of her cousins were 
also named Eliza for the noted grandmother. Upon her graduation 
in 18 97, she persisted so in teaching that her father was compelled to 
build a school room near her home. 

Soon after becoming a member of the Baylor College Faculty at 
Independence she undertook to raise money for some needed repairs. 
As a result she collected and turned over to the College Trustees 
one thousand dollars. 

After twelve years as a teacher of the College, she resigned to in- 
augurate the Cottage Home plan in 1893. 

But her resignation from the Faculty did not make her less active 
in college affairs. She has been the inspiration of much of the organ- 
ized effort of the college and has secured large funds for buildings 
and scholarships. 

On September 13, 1899, she was married to Rev. E. G. Townsend, 
who has served as teacher, Dean, Acting President and is now Vice- 
President of Baylor College! 

Mrs. Townsend's mother, Mrs. Indiana Keys Moore, gave a scholar- 
ship of five thousand dollars to the Loan Fund. One of her daughters, 
Mrs. Lucile Moore Walter, has given liberally of her time by writing- 
life insurance policies and giving the profits to Baylor Student League. 
Mrs. Moore had four daughters, Elli Moore Townsend, Biffie Moore 
Ault, Fannie Moore Colby, Tennie Moore Wilie and one granddaughter, 
Elli Ault, all graduates of Baylor. Her sister, Mrs. Tennesse Keys Em- 



Page eighty- four 



bree, and her nieces, Mrs. Gillian Embree Creswell and Mrs. Annie 
Kiliongli Moore, have contributed largely to the Loan Fund. The hus- 
band of the latter gave five thousand dollars in her memory. 

The Higdon family also dates its connection with Baylor College 
to the days of Independence. Mrs. Martha Rebecca Higdon had two 
daughters to graduate in the College before the removal to Belton. 
Mrs. Ebbie Higdon Ozburn graduated in 188 4 and Mrs. Annie Higdon 
Whitfield in 1885. Mrs. Whitfield has been the Superintendent of the 
Boarding department of Luther Hall for the past ten years. Her 
daughters, Mrs. Elli Whitfield Strickland graduated in 1912 and Mrs. 
Sara Whitfield Boyd in 1914. 

The Hicks family represents four generations of Baylor's girls. 
Mrs. Hall was a student of early Baylor. Her daughter, Mrs. Maggie 
Hall Hicks, is a graduate of 1870. Mrs. Hicks' daughter was also a 
Baylor girl and her granddaughter is a prospective Baylor student. 

Tne Dowell family have been prominent in Baylor activities for 
many years. Mrs. Dowell was given an honorary degree from Baylor 
upon the graduation of her sixth daughter. Miss Martha Dowell was a 
Baylor teacher for a quarter of a century and was one of the most 
enthusiastic workers of the Alumnae Association. Her marriage to Dr. 
R. K. Maiden took her away from her beloved Alma Mater in 1919, 
but her interest and loyalty will remain always. 

John F. Hillyer, D. D., L. L. D., of Macon, Georgia, one of the pioneer 
teachers and missionaries of Texas, held the first chair of science and 
mathematics in Baylor University at Independence. His great grand- 
daughters, Louise and Elizabeth Hillyer, represent the fourth genera- 
tion of the family. Their mother, Mrs. Hattie Woodruff Hillyer, is a 
Baylor Graduate, a Baylor teacher and is a prominent member 
of the Alumnae Association. 

Mrs. W. K. Saunders and her daughters were all Baylor graduates. 
Ivhss Carrie Saunders was a Baylor teacher for several years. Before 
her death she was interested in the Loan Fund and had begun con- 
tributing to a scholarship. 

The five Terry sisters were loyal Baylor girls, attending over a 
period of twenty years. The second generation of this family is now 
in school. 

Rev. Sid Williams has been a great friend of Baylor College. He 
made possible the publication of the first book that was given to girls 
as a means of educating themselves in Baylor. His wife was a Baylor 
girl and so were his two daughters, Mrs. Stone Williams Quillian and 
Irene Williams. 

In the Carrick family four sisters are graduates of Baylor These 
have all been loyal to their Alma Mater. Miss Nell Carrick has been a 
Baylor teacher for several years. 

. Page eighty-five 



The Hester Family 




From left to right — Marie Hester Fletcher, Monnie Hester Dowdy, Isabella Hester 
Englehart, Ethel Hester, Vira Hester McK.ee, Lucile Dowdy, Dora Hester Schlossham, 
Marguerite Dowdy King. 

The Williams Family 




Rev. Sid Williams 
2 5 years ago. 





Mrs. Sid Williams 



Stone Williams 
Quillian 



The Car rick Family 



Mrs. Jeane 
Carrick Ship 



Mrs. Dizzie 
Carrick Eatman 



Nell Carrick 




Irene Williams 




Mrs. Margaret 
Carrick Jones 



Page eighty-six 



The Hicks Family 



-■ *\ 




Mrs. Maggie Hall Hicks 
and her mother, daughter and granddaughter. 




Mrs. Bell Terry 



The Terry Family 




Mrs. Johnnie 
Terry Riggs 




Mrs. Kate Terry 
Elder 




Mrs-. Sara Terry 
Carson 




Mrs. Ruth Terrv 
Gist 



The Moore Family 




Mrs. Fannie Moore Colby, Mrs. Tennie Moore Wilie, Mrs. Indiana Keys Moore, Mrs. 
Lucile Moore Walter, Mrs. Elli Moore Townsend, Mrs. Biffie Moore Ault. 



Page eighty-seven 



The Saunders Family 




Mrs. W. K. Saunders 

Carrie Saunders 

Eileen Saunders 

Varina Saunders Tanner 



Representatives of Large Families 






Lucy Adams Pitts 



Melvina Adams 



Rowena Adams 




Maud Lay Harris 




Stella Brown 
Lancaster 




Fannie Mitchell 
Rockwell 



Page eighty- eight 



Representatives of Large Families 




Lillie Trussell 




Mrs. May Varnell 
Walton 




Mrs. Lizzie Leach 
Turner 




Mrs. Kate 
Yelvington Roj 




Mrs. Sallie 
Yardley Hedricl 




Mrs. Mabel Bassel 
Blanton 




Alma Nigro 




Mrs. Ollie 
Cochran Davis 




Zeola Philen 



Page eighty-nine 




B. H. CARROLL, D. D., LL. D. 
Preacher, Teacher, Prophet, Builder and Friend. 



Page ninety 



Related History 



"It behooves us often to look backward as well as forward. We 
should be stronger and braver if we thought oftener of the epic days 
and deeds of our beloved and immortal dead. The occasional back- 
ward look would give us poise, and patience, and courage, and faith. 

Myriads of voices, both from the living and the dead, summon us 
to a higher and better way. Happy are we to believe that God has His 
prophets not only in the pulpits of the churches, but also in the school- 
room, in the editor's chair, in the halls of legislation, in the marts of 
commerce, and in the realm of literature." 

Prior to the organization of the Southern Baptist Convention in 
1845, forces were at work shaping for us our visible beginning in 
Foreign Missions. In 1705 Frederick the fourth of Denmark sent mis- 
sionaries to India; in 1732 the Moravians to St. Thomas, and in 1733 
others were sent to Greenland, then came to English Baptists. 

In 178 4, the Nottinghamshire Baptist Association established a 
"Monthly Concert of Prayer for Missions," urging all to "pray for the 
spread of the Gospel to the most distant parts of the habitable globe"; 
thus in prayer the modern missionary movement had its beginning. 

In 17 9 2, this same English Baptist Association organized the first 
Foreign Mission Board. 

In 17 93, the Board appointed as its first missionaries, a Mr. Thomas, 
who had previously laid the foundation for William Carey'^ great work, 
in India, and united their work for the salvation of the heathen. This 
beginning is like the stone cut out of the mountain, small, but gather- 
ing size with momentum, until it has filled the whole world. 

As early as 1790 the Baptist churches of South Carolina joined in 
the monthly Concert of Prayer arranged by the English Baptists and 
through their pastor, Richard Furman, were most helpful in laying a 
broad, deep foundation for American Baptist Foreign Missions. 

Our forefathers were in close touch with the English Baptists mis- 
sionary movement, and in 1802 organized a mission society for work 
among the Indians. 

In 1812 Adoniram and Ann Haseltine Judson offered themselves 
to the unorganized American Baptists, which led to the formulation of 
various American Baptist Foreign Mission Societies. 



Page ninety-one 



Mission Dates to be Remembered 

1874. Monthly Concert of Prayer recommended by the Nottingham 
shire Baptist Association. 

1792. May 30. Carey preached Famous Sermon on Isaiah 54:2, 3. 
1792 October 2. "The Baptist Missionary Society for Propagating 

the Gospel Among the Heathen" formed at Kettering. 

1793. June 13. Carey and Thomas sail for India. 

1812. February 19. The Judsons sailed for India. 

1813. February. "Baptist Society for Propagating the Gospel in 

India and other Foreign Parts" organized in Boston. 

1813. October 28. Institution of "The Baptist Missionary Society of 

Virginia." 

1814. May 18. Meeting of "The Baptist General Convention for For- 

eign Missions" (Triennial Convention) in Philadelphia. 

18 45. May 8. Southern Baptist Convention organized in Augusta, 
Georgia. 



Contribution of Baptists to National Life 

Some of the principles which Baptists have given to cur national 
life are: 

1. The inherent worth of the individual and his right to all the 
principles of freedom. 

The Baptist view of the individual was brought to American shores 
by Roger Williams, and for supporting the principles of the inherent 
rights of all men, our Baptist forefathers were brought before the 
courts, were fined, were beaten and imprisoned. 

2. This principle which has been put into our national life by the 
Baptist is: the equality of the free individual before men and God. 

3. The moral obligation of free men to make all men tree is another 
principle which the Baptists have intensified in our national life. It is 
not an accident that modern foreign mission work was founded by a 
Baptist. Neither is it ah accident that our greatest foreign mission 
hymn, "The Morning Light is Breaking," was written by a Baptist. 

George Washington commended the Baptists for their contribution 
to' the emancipation of the colonies. Thomas Jefferson fought with 
them for civil and religious liberty. 

He carefully culled from the New Testament the teachings of 
Jesus, and was an unfailing ally of the Baptists. On attending the 
Baptist Church near his Virginia home, and on being asked by its 
pastor, Elder Tribble, for his opinion of the Baptist form of church 
government, replied, "I consider it the only form of pure democracy 
in the world and have concluded that it will be the best form of gov- 
ernment for our American Colonies." 

James Madison was their ally on many occasions and at their re- 
quest drew a remonstrance against taxation for support of the clergy. 

Thus, Baptist principles have called to their aid open-minded men 
of other churches and those of no church. In winning for themselves 
civil and religious liberty they have sought to win these for others also. 
It is the law of Jesus which is being written into the law of conduct, 
and eternity will reveal the value of this principle for the world. 

— John Jeter Hurt. 



Page ninety- two 



Southern Baptist Convention 
Board and Officers 

Home Mission Board — Dr. D. B. Gray, Secretary, Atlanta, Georgia. 
Foreign Mission Board — Dr. J. P. Love, Richmond,. Virginia. 
Sunday School Board — Dr. I. J. Van Ness, Nashville, Tennessee. 
Education Board — Dr. W. C. James, Birmingham, Alabama. 

Relief and Annuity Board — Dr. Wm. Lunsford, Dallas, Texas. 

Present Officers of the Convention 

James Burton Gambrell, D. D., Pres. ; Dallas, Texas. 

Vice-Presidents 

John Lipscomb Johnson Hattiesburg, Mississippi 

John Dagg Mell Athens, Georgia 

Richard Puller Manly. _. Birmingham, Alabama 

Giles Christopher Savage Nashville, Tennessee 

Secretaries 

James Burton tt-„i j- t^ -\x tvt i .,-, m 

Gambrell, d. d. Hight C. Moore... Nashville, Tennessee 

Dallas, Texas T , TT „ !_.. " 

Joseph Henry Burnett _Macon, Georgia 

Treasurer 
George W. Norton Louisville, Kentucky 

Auditor 

William Patrick Harvey Harrodsburg, Kentucky 




The Baptist Age 



We are approaching the Baptist age of the world, because we are 
approaching the age of the triumph of democracy. I seem to see dimly 
the outlines of the coming age. 

Like a vine growing in the darkness of some deep cavern, and 
slowly stretching itself toward the dim light shining in through the 
distant mouth of the cavern, so has humanity slowly crept along toward 
freedom. The mighty hordes of the Asiatic and the European world, 
weary and sad, yet courageous and resolute, are hastening forward 
with unresting feet toward the gates of destiny. Toward those gates, 
these hundreds of years the Baptists have been pointing, and today 
in the foremost files of time they lead the way. 

The goal of human progress shall be realized in an eternal society 
wherein absolute democracy is joined to absolute monarchy, God the 
Father being the monarch and his people a vast family of free chil- 
dren. — Mullins. 

Page ninety -three 



Seventy-Five Years of Southern Baptist 

Achievement 



The Southern Baptist Convention was organized at Augusta, Geor- 
gia, May S, 1845. For more than a quarter of a century controversy 
over ilie extension of slavery into free and newly acquired territories, 
agitated the country. The strain on the fellowship and fraternal feel- 
ings of the free and the slave sections was so severe that separation 
became both wise and Christian, and the organization of the Southern 
Baptist Convention was the result. A few of our principal achieve- 
ments can be sketched as follows: 

1. We have achieved numbers. Nowhere else in the world has 
the rate of growth among Baptists been so large, so insistent and 
sustained as in the South. 

2. We have achieved a large measure of unity. The anti-mission- 
aries, of several names, have largely died out, while the omissionaries 
are dwindling rapidly. Soon our ranks will be closed in favor of 
missions. 

3. We have achieved a considerable degree of wealth and liber- 
ality. The first year of the Convention history they gave for foreign 
missions only $17,731) and for home missions only $13,193. As our 
wealth has increased to such a degree the subscription of $92,000,- 
000 for the next five years, was easy. Now the question of supreme 
moment before us is as to whether we have the spiritual power to 
use properly our prosperity. 

4. We have achieved a great measure of education. To meet the 
need for an educated Ministry, the Southern Baptist Theological Semi- 
nary was established at Greenville, South Carolina, in 185 9, and re- 
moved to Louisville, Kentucky, in 1877. It had a faculty of four pro- 
fessors. 

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary originated as a 
department of Baylor University and was removed to Fort Worth in 
1910. 

The Baptist Bible Institute, founded in 1917 in New Orleans, was 
projected to train special workers, and ministers. 

5. We have achieved a greatly increased efficiency in our church 
work. Our Sunday Schools were just beginning their career of use- 
fulness in 1845. Very few churches had Sunday Schools at that time. 

Our Sunday School Board established in 1891, has been one of our 
most successful denominational agencies. 

Statistics of the Southern Baptist Convention for 1920 show that 
our present membership is 2,961,348. In quoting these figures it will 
be well to remember that there are about 250, 000 white Baptists in 
the South not identified with the Southern Baptist Convention. 

— McGlothlin. 



Page ninety- four 



Woman's Mission Union 




Mrs. W. C. James 
President W. M. 

U. Southern 
Baptist Conven- 
tion. 





Mrs. F. S. Davis 
Vice-President for 
Texas, and Pres. 
of Texas W. M. U. 



Mrs. A. F. Beddoe 

, Corresponding 

Secretary Texas 

W. M. U. 




Miss Maggie Buchanan 

A Favorite Baylor College Teacher, 

Now Corresponding Secretary 

of Tennessee W. M. U. 



In 1878, the Southern Baptist Con- 
vention authorized the Home Mission 
Board to appoint central committees 
in the several states who should or- 
ganize the women in missionary socie- 
ties to circulate missionary periodi- 
cals, and to cultivate the missionary 
spirit. Mrs. Fannie Breedlove Davis, 
a former student of Baylor College at 
Independence, was appointed chair- 
man, and Miss Annie Luther, corre- 
sponding secretary of the Texas com- 
mittee. Miss Annie Luther was then 
a teacher in Baylor College. 

In 18 80, twelve societies met in 
Austin and organized the Women's 



Missionary Union, electing Mrs. F. B. Davis president. It was during 
this session of the convention that Miss Annie Luther was appointed 
Missionary to Brazil. She and Reverend W. B. Bagby married soon 
after and sailed immediately for their new home. This tie to foreign 
fields gave great impetus to missionary zeal among the Texas women. 

In 1886, the five Baptist Conventions of Texas united as "The 
Baptist General Convention of Texas." The women's organization 
also united under the name "Baptist Women Mission Workers and 
retained this name until 1919, when it again adopted the name W. M. U. 
Texas W. M. U. headquarters are in Dallas. Mrs. F. S. Davis is presi- 
dent; Mrs. A. F. Beddoe, corresponding secretary. 



Page ninety-five 




Anne Judson 



MISSIONS 



In the beginning of the Nineteenth Century the 
Religious thought and idea was completely revolu- 
tionized by a little woman — young, beautiful, and 
consecrated — Ann Hasseltine Judson, who, with her 
husband, Adoniram Judson, were the first American 
Baptist foreign missionaries. Her life of devotion 
to her husband and her God, her suffering for both, 
is a story that has quickened the faith and hope of 
the Christian world, perhaps as has no other woman 
of any age. 



Texas Baptist Pioneer Missionaries 






W. B. Bag-by, D. D. 



Mrs. Annie Luther 
Bag-by 



Dr. 



and Mrs. C. 
Tailor 



To our pioneer Texas Baptist Missionaries, Reverend W. B. and 
Annie Luther Bagby, Z. C. Taylor and his first wife, belong the honor 
of laying the foundation of the splendid work in Brazil. 

Through Dr. J. B. Armstrong, Dr. Taylor was led to choose Brazil 
as his field while he was yet a student in Baylor University. So 
enthusiastic did he become that he, in time, was instrumental in Dr. 
Bagby's choice of Brazil, he having completed his University work and 
preceded Dr. Taylor one year. 

Bahia, the seat of Romanism, and Rio de Janeiro, seat of the 
central government, were wisely chosen in which to begin their work. 
Dr. and Mrs. Bagby later went to Sao Paulo. 

A church was organized in Bahia in 18 82 with five members, also a 
splendid school later. 

Working out from Bahia, Dr. Taylor accomplished tasks seemingly 
impossible in evangelistic and publication work. 

The second Mrs. Taylor established a Baptist College in Bahia, but 
for lack of help at the right time, her health failed, and her work was 
placed in other hands. These two devoted and faithful missionaries 
lost their lives in coastal storm at Corpus Christi, September 14, 1919 
Then- heavenly reward will be in keeping with their labors on earth. 



Page ninety-six 




1920 Missionaries 



Zemmn Hair 



HOME AND FOREIGN FIELDS 
SEPTEMBER, 1920 



When the steamship "Empress of Japan" sailed from Vancouver, 
B. C, for the Orient on August 17, 1920, it carried on board nearly one 
hundred Baptist missionaries, the largest number of workers ever sent 
out at one time by any Mission Board in the world's history. 

Our own Zemma Hare was one of this number. These are the first 
of the new appointees made possible by the Seventy-five Million Cam- 
paign. With what mingled feelings of pride and humility do we look 
into the faces of these brave young men and women, who go as our 
representatives into the midst of heathenism of China and Japan! God 
help us to be faithful to them as they are faithful to Christ, supporting 
them with our money and upholding them with our prayers. Other 
workers for South America and Africa are under appointment, and 
will sail at an early date. The objective of the Foreign Board for the 
five-year period is five hundred missionaries in all our fields. The 
objective of Baylor College Student League is seventy-five new mis- 
sionaries for this five-year period. 

The Brazilian Baptists now have a National Baptist Convention 
with a Home and Foreign Board. The former is beginning work 
with the native Indians and the latter is sending missionaries to 
Portugal. A Board of fifteen women direct the work among the 
women and children. A great five-year campaign, similar to ours, 
has been inaugurated. 



Page ninety-seven 




Mary Lyon 



EDUCATION 



In 1837 Mary Lyon established Mount Holyoke 
Seminary at South Hadley, Massachusetts, and 
proved to the world that her mission was a divine 
one. As a pioneer in introducing" higher education 
for women, she stands alone, a worthy leader of the 
following she has had. She paved the way for 
Wellesley, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, Rattliff, Smith and 
others. And today, because of her vision and faith 
to act, women stand side by side with their brothers, 
for ignorance is no longer a necessity, but is purely a 
matter of indifference or choice. 



"The time has come for readjustment of educa- 
tional values, and until the Bible is made a foundation stone, a funda- 
mental fact, a basic principle, and recognized as having constructive 
value in our system of education, we are building on sand." 

"The chief object of education is to awaken the spirit, and that, 
inasmuch as a piece of literature when it touches its greater and 
higher notes, is an expression of the spirit of mankind; the best in- 
duction into education is to feel the pulse of humanity, which has 
beaten free from age to age, through the universities of men who 
have penetrated to the secrets of the human spirit." 

— President Wilson. 

"Out of their Centenary Fund, towering over the seven hills on 
which Rome was built and crowning Monte Mario, there is being 
erected a Methodist College, having the capacity for a thousand 
students, Dr. Bertrand M. Tripple, president. Two buildings will 
mark this college from other European schools — a gymnasium and a 
chapel — thus typifying what Christian America has to contribute to 
education in Italy. All teachers are to be Protestant Italians except 
two. This is a daring and statesman-like attempt to combine the 
best in the educational systems of the two nations, America and Italy. 



Page ninety-eight 



Baptist Schools in the United States 

(ACCORDING TO THE LATEST STATISTICS) 



Baptists in the United States own one hundred and one institutions 
listed as Colleges and Universities, and one hundred and eighteen 
listed as Academies and Institutes. 

These institutions have $82,000,000 invested in school property 
and endowment. 

They have 55,685 students and 2,287 students for the ministry. 

One-seventh of all college students in the United States are in 
Baptist institutions. 

Baptists in the United States have fourteen Theological Seminaries, 
in which there are one hundred nineteen instructors and 1,792 students 
for the ministry- These seminaries have in property and endowment 
$7,792,442. Their annual income from endowment is $199,083. The 
total number of students for the ministry in all Baptist institutions in 
the United States is 3,580, of whom 1,9 05 are in Southern schools. 

" Southern Baptists have fifty-seven educational institutions listed 
as Colleges and Universities, and seventy-two institutions listed as 
Academies and Institutes. These schools have property valued at $13,- 
920,378 and endowment funds amounting to about $7,000,000. They 
have four hundred and forty-eight instructors and 10,550 students. 

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky,, 
has a faculty of twelve instructors and three hundred and eighty-five 
students enrolled. It has property and endowment amounting to 
$1,660,000. 

The Baptist Woman's Missionary Training School, Louisville, Ken- 
tucky, founded in 1907, has a faculty of nineteen members, of whom 
eight are professors in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary- 
Property and endowment are valued at $90,286. During the ses- 
sion 1919-1920 the student body numbered one hundred and twenty. 

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary originated as 
a department of Baylor University in 1901, was separated as an 
independent institution in 1909 and was removed to Fort Worth, 
in 1910. It is pre-eminently the child of Dr. B. H.Carroll, and is the 
institutional embodiment of his type of Baptist thought and life. 

The Kansas City Theological Seminary, Kansas, has seven instruc- 
tors, sixty-three students with property and endowment amounting to 

$227,000. 



Page ninety-nine 




The Southwestern Training" School 
Fort Worth, Texas 

The Baptist Women Training School is located in Fort Worth 
in connection with the Southwestern Theological Seminary. There are 
one hundred young women in attendance. The property is valued at 
$2 50,000, and the building stands as a monument to the untiring ef- 
forts of Mrs. R. F. Stokes. Mrs. J. W. Byars is the capable Superin- 
tendent. 

The religious organization planned especially for our Baptis". 
schools is called "The Baptist Student Union." Plans are being made 
to set up this organization in all of our schools this fall. A pamphlet 
to aid our students in carrying out the religious work is being pre- 
pared by the secretary and Dr. L. B. Leavell, of the Sunday School 
Board. This pamphlet will be published by the board and will be 
ready for distribution by the opening of our schools. The first Baptist 
Student Convention for Texas will be held October 22-24, 1920, with 
Howard Payne College, Brownwocd, Texas. 

The nurse's profession, as a means of serving humanity both at 
home and in foreign lands, is appealing to many consecrated young 
women. The Baptist Sanitarium in Houston, the first Baptist hos- 
pital operated in Texas, has a Volunteer Band of seventeen members. 
Five of its 1919 and 1920 graduates are already appointed to go as 
foreign missionary nurses. One of these is a Baylor girl. The Me- 
morial Sanitarium at Dallas and others in the state are no less zealous 
in training nurses for world-wide service. 

Miss Grace McBride, a student of the Louisville Baptist Training 
School, gave her life as a Red Cross Nurse to the soldier boys during 
the recent world war. 




M 




Miss Grace McBride 



Mrs. Emma 
Mclver Woody 



Mrs. R, F. Stokes 



Page one hundred 



How Southern Baptists Can Meet the De- 
mand of the Reconstruction Period 
Through Their Schools 

"There is no war between the old and the new; 
The conflict is between the false and the true." 

Plans are now on foot for the creation of a great national system 
cf public education. But the state can never adequately teach religion. 
Our schools must supplement the work of the state. We Baptists need 
to so standardize and correlate our schools, that we may have a worthy 
system of our own, and this in turn should be so co-ordinated with 
other educational agencies as to render the largest service in a Chris- 
tion democracy for the Kingdom of God. 

To attempt to shirk or evade our duty is unthinkable; to doubt that 
the principles of Christ intelligently and consistently applied will meet 
the needs of this new day is equally unthinkable. 

Most failures grow out of either sin or ignorance and in many 
cases out of both. Our remedies, therefore, are to be found in a happy 
blending of Education and Religion. 

Education alone may diagnose diseases and discover remedies, but 
it is lacking in the ability to apply; knowledge alone can never remedy 
social evils. Sometimes religion without education becomes fanatical. 

There has never been so much social and industrial unrest in the 
world as there is today. Are all these social disturbances the indica- 
tions of healthy tendencies toward democracy, fraternity and the 
brotherhood of man? It is easy to jump at conclusions, but our 
present need is a thorough study of these social tendencies in order to 
rightly discover the causes that underlie; and to be enabled to apply 
the proper remedy or give proper education. 

In olden days the curriculum was built around the classic lan- 
guages; then came the period when the studies were grouped about 
the natural sciences. The tendency now is to group the courses of 
study about the social sciences. 

The Christian college can help solve the problem of illiteracy by 
training teachers and creating an atmosphere of culture. They can 
solve the problems of vice and crime by teaching the principles of 
righteousness, by incorporating moral and religious instruction in their 
regular courses of study. 

The Christian college will not only study the problem and find the 
solution in the light of the Gospel, but it will turn back into society a 
great company of cultured, broad-minded, humanity-loving, public- 
spirited, big-visioned, Christian men and women to exemplify the 
principles of the Kingdom of Christ in their daily living. After all, 
the biggest contribution that can be made to society and the solution 
of its problems, is to turn back into society a high type of Christian 
educated citizenship. — J- E. Dillard. 



One hundred and one 




Southern Baptist Education Board 



At a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention 
in Washington, D. C, in May, 1920, Dr. W. C. James 
was elected Corresponding Secretaary of the Edu- 
cation Board; in August, Dr. Albert Bond was chosen 
Editorial Secretary. His purpose will be to con- 
duct the Department of Publicity and Propaganda 
in such way as to bring Christian education to a 
vital and vitalizing notice of the brotherhood, and 
to make such a survey of educational problems as 
will enable the Education Board to function prop- 

Dr. w. c. James erly as an agency of the Convention in the develop- 

ment of educated men and women who will still 

have the denominational spirit and purpose. A few definite purposes 

have become clear as our immediate objectives. 

1. Educational Clearing-House. — The Board undertakes to inves- 
tigate the educational situation both generally and specially Baptist, 
and to become the clearing-house of information upon education. 

2. Publicity and Propaganda. — The Board believes that a supreme 
Lask, committed to it by its very genius, is to create an educational 
consciousness that will develop an educational conscience among 
Southern Baptists. This can be done only by insistent and proper 
publicity through the many channels open through the pulpit, platform, 
and press. Knowledge must precede large and loyal response. Tho 
Baptist Educational Bulletin is published monthly, and will be mailed 
free to anyone so desiring. Send us your name. 

3. New Students. — The Board will continue to help bring young 
men and women to decision relative to college life and to put them 
in touch with our Baptist schools. 

4. Religious Work for Students. — The Education Board will co- 
operate with the other Boards in caring for the religious life of the 
students in State as well as denominational schools. 

5. South wide Institutions. — The Board has been made the chan- 
nel through which certain Southwide institutions shall have benefit 
from the Seventy-five Million Campaign. 

6. Volunteers. — The Board will seek to touch the great number 
of young people who have volunteered for definite religious service. 

We could not even indicate all the plans that clamor for attention 
on the part of the Education Board. These will be given attention as 
opportunity arises. There may be no limit to 'the influence of the 
Board. Education is fundamentally related to every problem of South- 
ern Baptists. The men of tomorrow will have a vision commensurate 
with the world service of Baptists, if we give Christian education its 
proper place now in our affection and liberality. 

This step forward in the matter of Christian Education is all the 
more significant in view of the fact that not until the year 1910 did 
our S. B. C. arrange for a report on general education in its general 
session. This memorable report was made by Dr. W. L. Poteat, then of 
Wake Forest College. The Convention heard his discourse on "Re- 
ligion in Education" May 14, 1910, but not until ten years later was 
the Education Board formally organized. Now, thanks be to God, it is 
doing efficient and valuable service, with headquarters at Birming- 
ham, Alabama. 

One hundred and two 



Mountain Schools 



The mountain school department of the Home Board starts the 
new fiscal year with thirty-eight schools. Five of these are in Arkan- 
sas and one in Missouri. The rest are in the Southern Appalachians. 
Besides the thirty-eight mountain schools with which the new fiscal 
year begins, there are four others under investigation by Superinten- 
dent A. E. Brown, with the possibility of their being added during 
the year. One of these is in Virginia, one in Arkansas, one in Ken- 
tucky, and one in North Carolina. 

The attendance of the Mountain Schools of the Home Board last 
year reached a total of 6,152 students. During the year many had to 
be turned away for lack of room. These schools are in nine states. 

During the past year two hundred and fifty-six mountain boys and 
girls, who applied for entrance into the schools and wished to work 
their way, had to be turned away because there was no work to offer 
them. Our schools took care of a number of the mentally hungry 
highland youth in giving them work. But the desire of indigent boys 
ana girls for education is far beyond the present ability of the schools 
to supply. Steps are being taken to increase the facilities for self-sup- 
porting work in connection with the schools. 

By a donation from the Home Board for a Bible Chair, Carson- 
Newman College of Tennessee comes into the Home Board System of 
Schools. 



One hundred and three 



The Seventy-Five Million Campaign 






Dr. L. R. 

Scarborough 

General Director 



Dr. F. V. Neal 
State Organizer 



Dr. F. S. Groner 
Director State 
Campaign. 



How this campaign originated, no one knows. It was not the plan 
of any one man or of any group of men. As the 1919 Southern Bap- 
tist Convention developed, it seemed to arrive at the conclusion that 
this great task should be undertaken, and believing that it was fol- 
lowing the unmistakable leading of the Spirit of God, the Convention, 
with great enthusiasm, committed itself to the Seventy-five Million 
Campaign and appointed a Commission of fifteen to devise ways and 
means for carrying unto success this great project. 

The Commission elected Dr. L. R. Scarborough of Texas as General 
Director and locating the headquarters of the Campaign in Nashville. 
Tennessee. Later, the organization was completed by electing B. C. 
Hening, Assistant Director; Hight C. Moore, Publicity Director; T. B. 
Ray, Survey Director; Prank E. Burkhalter, Secular Press; Mrs. W. J. 
Neel, Women's Missionary Union Director; Mrs. Janie Cree Bose, 
Women's Missionary Union Organizer; I. J. Van Ness, Treasurer. 

This committee met and allocated the money as follows: 

Christian Education $20,000,000 

Foreign Missions 20,000,000 

Home Missions 12,000,000 

State Missions 11,000,000 

Ministerial Relief 5,000,000 

Orphanages 4,700,000 

Hospitals 2,125,000 

The proportion for these objects was varied somewhat in the states 
to meet peculiar conditions. 

The Executive Committee of the Commission ordered the Survey 
Director to institute a survey of the needs to be met by the Seventy-five 
Million Campaign. 

Of the seventy-five million dollars, Texas was asked to raise as 
her quota the sum of $15,000,000. The Campaign to raise the $75,- 
000,000 fund was started in July, and the time set for the actual drive 
for money and subscriptions was from November thirtieth to Decem- 
ber seventh. These eight days were designated as Victory Week 
and resulted in the raising of $92,000,000. This 75 Million Campaign 
has been one of unprecedented interest, of wide extended benefit and 
the most wonderful concerted effort ever put forth by our Baptist 
people. 



One hundred and four 




Dr. Geo. W. Trubtt 
Chairman Campaign Commission 

Among the by-products of the Campaign, we should mention: 

1. The widespread enlistment of our people in religious activities. 

2. The resuscitation of dormant and, in hundreds of instances, dead 
or extinct churches. 

3. The increased circulation of our denominational papers. 

4. The lesson of stewardship that has been more widely taught 
and more generally practiced than ever before. 

5. Another by-product of the Campaign in Texas is the successful 
local drives in behalf of some of our institutions in the localities where 
these institutions are. 

In the Seventy-five Million Campaign the largest gift, four hundred 
thousand dollars, was made by Mr. Will Dockery, Memphis, Tennes- 
see. Note the advance in Baptist giving in seventy-five years. Sev- 
enty-five years ago Huckins traveled all over the South and East, in 
interest of Christian Education in Texas, and he secured in five years 
thirty thousand dollars in pledges and thirteen hundred dollars in 
cash. The largest gift from an individual was $200.00. 



One hundred and five 



Baptist Seventy- Five Million 
Campaign 

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION 
Chart, of Organization 

These Loyal Forces Will Bring Victory 

/\ 
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/ $75,000,000 



/ 



Central Organization 

campaign commission 

campaign directors 

general director 

his staff, 
nashville, tenn. 



STATE ORGANIZATION 

18 GENERAL DIRECTORS 

18 ORGANIZERS 

18 PUBLICITY DIRECTORS 

18 W.M.U. ORGANIZERS 



1 ASSOCIATIONAL ORGANIZATION 

(925 ORGANIZERS 
925 PUBLICtTY DIRECTORS 
926 W.M.U. ORGANIZERS 



CHURCH ORGANIZATION 

24851 DIRECTORS. 

24851 ORGANIZERS 

24851 W.M.U. ORGANIZERS 

74553 BOOSTERS 

74553 TEAM CAPTAINS 

298212 TEAM WORKERS 



BAPTIST CONSTITUENCY 

3,000,000 MEMBERS 



CHRIST JESUS— OUR ROCK 

HE REQU/RES OUR MAXIMUM OFSERVICE 



(^=EEEb 



.. 



Our xlim — For the Master 

2,500,000 Converts 5,500,000 Members Enlisted 

5000 Additional Ministers and Missionaries 

75,000,000 Dollars 



One hundred and six 



The 1920 Baptist World Mission 

Conference 

The Most Notable Missionary Conference 
In the History of Baptists 



It was made up of messengers from England, Ireland, Scotland. 
Wales, the Northern and Southern Baptist Conventions, France, Spain, 
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Fin- 
land, Esthonia, Lithuania, Lativa, Poland, Germany, Austria-Hungary, 
C^echo-Slovakia, Jugo-Slavia, and Roumania. The conference was 
called by the general mission boards of the Southern, Northern and 
British Baptists to consider Europe and the mission work needed there. 

The following are some of the points which were brought into 
clear relief by reports to the conference: 

(1) The poverty and suffering which prevail everywhere in the 
war-ravaged countries. 

(2) The gratitude of the people for the help given by our own 
Foreign Board and the other boards to relieve this suffering. 

(3) The marvelous opening for the Gospel in the whole European 
area under new conditions, with the exception of Russia. There will 
be some delay in Russia. 

(4) The imperative need of an educational system to train and 
equip native leaders for the work. 

(5) The necessity and urgency for immediate action by the various 
mission boards if we are not tc lose a great opportunity. 

The general policy adopted was co-ordinate work in separate areas 
rather than combined or joint work over the whole territory. This 
was unanimously adopted as the wisest plan, co-ordination and har- 
mony rather than unified and joint administration. The outcome 
was a recommendation that Spain, Hungary, Roumania, Jugo-Slavia, 
and Ukraine be recommended to Foreign Mission Board of the South- 
ern Baptist Convention. This, added to Italy, our present field, would 
give us a belt of territory across Southern Europe stretching away 
in the direction of China on the east and out to Spain on the southwest. 



Ridgecrest Conference For 
Baptist Students 

Ridgecrest is on the Southern Railway, eighteen miles east of 
Asheville, N. C, and has already become the greatest gathering place 
of Southern Baptists for summer conferences. 

The purpose of this conference is to bring together a well chosen 
company of Baptist students and teachers to consider the problems of 
student life and to gain inspiration and information on the subjects 
of World Missions, Education and Evangelism. 



Page one hundred and seven 




Dr. O H. C 



ooper 




Dr. ft. C. Burlesi 




Gen. Sam Houston 




Gov. W. P. Hobby 



Education In Texas 



The idea of projecting a University to be sup- 
ported by the government took shape in an act in- 
troduced in the congress of the Republic, entitled 
"An Act to Establish the University of Texas," 
which, on April 13, 183 8, was referred to a special 
committee. 

The first public free school was opened in Texas 
on September 4, 1871, under the administration of 
Provisional Governor E. J. Davis and with J. C. De 
Gress, appointed by Davis, as State Superintendent 
of Education. 

During Governor Coke's administration the Leg- 
islature adopted a resolution on November 1, 1876, 
accepting the provisions of the Federal grant for the 
creation of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
and they also made especial provisions for this insti- 
tution. 

Dr. Oscar H. Cooper, that accomplished scholar, 
successful educator, and learned gentleman who 
succeeded Dr. Burleson in the Presidency of Baylor 
University, fixed himself in the educational history 
of Texas, as a wise friend of public education by 
strongly recommending in the consolidated conven- 
tion that the next legislature be urged to take the 
steps necessary to organize the University of Texas 
which induced the passage of a ringing resolution to 
that effect. The report of Dr. O. H. Cooper's com- 
mittee in 1881 was instrumental in the passage of 
the act introduced in the seventeenth legislature by 
Col. J. C. Hutchinson of Harris county, approved 
March 30, 1881, providing for the establishment of 
the University of Texas, the success of which has 
exceeded perhaps the expectations of its friends. 

The history of an institution for higher educa- 
tion is characterized by the development of the 
State it serves. Baylor University, founded in 1845. 
and chartered under the Republic of Texas, has a 
history as replete with heroic endeavor and signifi- 
cant achievements as has the Lone Star State ci' 
whose life it has been so great a part. 

Commensurate with the development of the 
State, must be the character of men produced by her 
institutions and in this respect Baylor has done a 
noble part as is explenified in her many splendid 
sons. 

Baylor has claims on these three governors: 
Houston, Hobby and Neff. 



The State of Texas surrendered its sovereignty as an inde- 
pendent nation through a convention of the people assembled 
at Austin, July 4, 1845, and adopted resolutions for the annexa- 
tion of the Stave. 

On the nineteenth of June, 1S65, General Gordon Granger, 
of the United States army, by proclamation at Galveston, as- 
sumed command over Texas. On the same date he also de- 
clared the negroes to be free, from which date the negroes of 
Texas have ever since celebrated June nineteenth as "Emancipa- 
tion Day." 



Pa 



one hundred and eight 




Democratic Nominee August 28, 1920 
Mr. Neff is President of the Board of Trustees 
of Baylor University, also President of the Confer- 
ence of Education in Texas. 

By authority of Baylor he can write A. B and 
A. M., after his name. The University of Texas is 
responsible for his LL. B. degree. 

Three times he was elected to the Texas House 
of Representatives and by the Twenty-eighth Legis- 
lature was chosen speaker, the youngest man ever 
Gov. Pat m. Neff so elected in the State. 

Mr. Neff showed good judgment in marrying a 
Baylor classmate, Miss Myrtle Mainer of Lovelady, Texas. She now 
presides over his home in Waco, giving direction to the home and two 
children. 

Extracts from some of his speeches: 

The martyrs of our independence and the makers of our consti- 
tution knew full well that the state could not flourish except as it was 
entrenched behind an educated people. A country can have no wealth 
comparable to an educated citizenship. Texas will never rise inde- 
pendent of her institutions of learning. The grandest legacy the fath- 
ers left to the sons and daughters of Texas was a richly dowered school 
system. 

The same God who in the days of old crowned Gideon's 
band with immortal glory, and pushed back the night until 
Joshua fought the battle of His people, has directed the foot- 
steps of this Republic from its infancy. 

Fashioned in the moulds of a free republic, schooled 
in the teachings of religious liberty, imbued with the spirit 
of philanthropy, to be an American citizen is nobler than to 
be a king. 

While the American people are strenuous, practical and material, 
there is a philanthropic strain of idealism in their make-up that res- 
ponds to every appeal in behalf of peace and brotherhood. Here on 
American soil, beneath our country's flag, will be fulfilled the eternal 
purpose of the ages. When Time, weary with her flight, flops her 
wings in the twilight dawn of the eternal morning, this Republic, 
forgetting the battle of the music of the drum, wearing on her majes- 
tic forehead a resplendent diadem amid whose clustering jewels will 
shine Peace, the crowning gem, will behold at her queenly feet the 
gathered nations of earth, joining with her in that glad anthem, the 
cradle song of the Savior, which startled the shepherds of old as they 
watched their flocks on the dim Judean hills, "Glory to God in the 
highest, on earth peace, good will toward men." 

The inherent sovereignty of the state was not lost and will never 
oe lost as long as one white star gleams in the field of blue, or one red 
stripe clings to "Old Glory's proud folds." The right of local self- 
government was not lost and will never be lost as long as freemen can 
cast a ballot or rally beneath a flag. 



Page one hundred and nine 



Texas Baptist Schools 

Culled From 1919 Texas Baptist Annual 

The present condition of our schools is truly encouraging. With 
their debts refunded, additional improvements being planned and pro- 
vided for, with strong faculties, capable and stalwart men as their 
presidents, a maximum morale, an increasing religious atmosphere 
with deepening spirituality, and a general sense of confidence every- 
where, it may be here said, that the present splendid situation augurs 
well for the future of our schools. 

"Education is one of the factors in human life that has enabled 
the race to rise from a mere struggle of mere existence into the 
realm of achievements. It has been one of the factors in life's 
progress that has made modern civilization possible. To edu- 
cate in art is important, in religion indispensible. With edu- 
cation as a means, the Dark Ages were lighted as with 
faggots until the race awakened to its birthright, and stepped forth 
from its age-long dream into a new day, called Renaissance. With n 
as a means, men smote the Papacy, and made it impotent, so that its 
autocratic power was broken and the world went forth to seek free- 
dom of conscience and democracy. With it as a means, the iron hand 
of monarchy was made to tremble and a new day was ushered in. But 
while education is a mighty factor in human life, as such it is danger- 
ous, unless it is properly harnessed and directed in channels of use- 
fulness, and made to be a servant instead of a master." 

Christianity gives education the right objective, and causes it not 
to be too speculative in its search for truth. Christian Education, 
while recognizing the value and importance of the search for, and ac- 
ceptance of truth, in all fields of endeavor; nevertheless righteousness 
and holiness have a right to walk side by side with truth, without any 
apology; that truth is, in fact, not hurt when clothed in garments of 
righteousness and walking in paths of holiness. 

But never before have Baptists labored with so much unanimity 
and enthusiasm as today, especially Southern Baptists. We have in 
Texas an investment of $4,022,579.48 in our schools and colleges in- 
cluding endowment, exclusive of the medical school at Dallas. Ten 
years ago the valuation of our school property in Texas was less than 
one million dollars. There are at present in Texas twelve schools of 
all kinds under the control of Baptist, including the Seminary and the 
school of Medicine and Dentistry. These schools, at present have a 
matriculation of 6,231 students. 

The buildings of all our schools number fifty, and twenty-three 
more are expected to be built as a result of the seventy-five million 
Campaign. The number of teachers and officers in the schools is two 
hundred and thirty-six. There is an endowment only in three of our 
schools which amounts to $931,000, and which needs to be greatly sup- 
plemented. Those who in the past have been educated in these schools 
have in most instances become leaders in their respective communi- 
ties and a blessing wherever they have gone. 

We must plant christian schools with the Bible as the supreme 
book in the curricula and an atmosphere of unmistakable, vital Godli- 
ness, radiating from the lives of the teaching staff. Christian charac- 
ter in the teacher is a supreme necessity. Teachers create atmos- 
phere, and atmosphere is an essential of spiritual health." 

Page one hundred and ten 



Appreciations 




Dr. A. J. Barton 



hearted, 
Texas wi 



big of 

11 bear 



The Texas Baptist owe a debt of gratitude to the 
faithful, untiring work of one who was a prince 
among us, Dr. A. J. Barton. During the trying years 
he served as Secretary of the Texas Baptist Board of 
Education, our denomination was in that period 
between the laying aside of the old and the begin- 
ning of the new order of work; a period character- 
ized by unrest and even uncertainty, but through it 
all Dr. Barton worked with that hope that is born 
of faith in God, and solidified our schools, and paved 
the way for the progress that came later. Big 

soul, with a mind trained for big tasks, his work in 

fruit while time shall last. 



When the history of Texas Baptists shall 
have been completed, the efficient service ren- 
dered by Dr. P. M. McConnell will fill an im- 
portant place. Like Dr. Barton, he served in a 
transition period, but served heroically and 
loyally, as Secretary of the Baptist General 
Convention of Texas. 




Mrs. Lou White 




Dr. F. M. McConnell 



A true pioneer in Christian service is Mrs. Lou 
White of Lancaster. Gentle and refined, yet strong 
and courageous, she has added much to the W. M. 
U. of Texas, by giving wise and kindly co-opera- 
tion to her officers; and by her gifts, which have 
been numerous and large, every line of work con- 
ducted by Texas Baptists has been blest. 



Page one hundred and eleven 



Digest of 1919 Report on Religious 
Activities in Texas Baptist Schools 

BAYLOR UNIVERSITY. 

The religious activities of Baylor University are conducted by 
two religious organizations, the University Christian Association and 
the Young Women's Christian Association. Each department of 
work is carried forward by a committee of students. In this way 
students receive training in generalship which is of value in after life 
as church workers and leaders. Once a week the men and women 
meet separately for religious worship. Once a year there is con- 
ducted in Baylor an evangelistic revival. Under the direction of the 
Social Service Committee, religious meetings are regularly conducted 
in McLennan County Jail, in Evangelia Social Settlement, on the 
streets of Waco, at the Home of Indigents, at the Downtown Mission, 
and in the University Dormitories. Directly as the results of the work 
of this committee hundreds of persons have been led to acceptance 
of the Christian religion." 

BAYLOR COLLEGE. 

Baylor College has many distinctions other than that of being 
the largest Baptist college for women in the world. She is the largest 
standard college for women west of the Mississippi River and the 
best equipped college for women in the whole South. Baylor College 
has the most widely distributed student body of any school in Texas. 
More than half come from more than one hundred miles from Belton, 
one hundred and forty Texas counties are represented; students are 
there from Oregon on the West to North Carolina on the east and from 
North Dakota to Florida on the south, six foreign countries are repre- 
sented. 

1,517 young women enrolled as students in her various depart- 
ments. The growth of Baylor College has been phenomenal indeed. 
It has come in the face of adversity and contrary to the predictions of 
men known as experts in the educational world; it has come speedily, 
pleasantly, and abundantly. Baylor College stands today as one of 
the most impressive monuments to militant faith in all the world. The 
gladsome feature of the whole life and outlook for the institution 
is that she is just entering her greatest period of development and 
progress. 

BAYLOR COLLEGE TRAINING SCHOOL. 

The first College Training School for Sunday School workers was 
held with Baylor College at Belton last week. There were more than 
four hundred in attendance on the three classes. 

On Sunday morning the college Sunday school was completely 
reorganized and graded with a corps of fifty officers and teachers. 
Dr. E. G. Townsend, vice-president of the college, was sponsor for 
this meeting, and it has been decided to make it an annual affair in 
the religious life of the college. 

B. Y. P. U. IN BAYLOR COLLEGE. 

Truly a rare privilege, this one granted your Secretary recently, 
to meet with the twenty B. Y. P. U.'s of Baylor College in the first 
joint sessions. Some six hundred of the young ladies in this splendid 
institution gathered together into these twenty B. Y. P. U.'s and 
they are from well-nigh every quarter of the universe, Miss Lowe from 
China, Miss Uluihi from Honolulu, and others. 



Page one hundred and twelve 



"Promptly, at the appointed time Sunday evening the piano sent 
forth the strains of "Onward Christian Soldiers" and the great affair 
was in actual progress. 

As these six hundred girls marched through the several entrances 
cf the chapel even the mighty pen and the mightier brain of a Tenny- 
son could not describe this grand charge. Here they came, in groups 
cf forty or fifty, each group bearing an individual banner carrying 
the name of their B. Y. P. U. and the significant words "A-l." Grace 
Elliott, Margaret Howell, Mary C. Demarest, Annie Jenkins Sallee, 
Ella Y. Ely, Elli Moore Townsend, E. E. Lee, T. C. Gardner, David 
Livingston, Bob Jolly, Juniors of Ely-Pepper Hall, Junior 1 and Junior 
2 of Luther Hall — ten B. Y. P. U.'s each and every one of them A-l 
in the Standard of Excellence. 

Our hearts were thrilled and our very soul inspired by the sight. 
We wish other Baptist colleges might have the same vision of their 
duty to our churches and our denomination as this one of Baylor 
College. 

Simmons College gives most efficient Christian training through 
her many religious organizations. 

Howard Payne College conducts its religious activities through 
a Student's Christian Association and the Young Women's Auxiliary. 

In Decatur College the students who believe themselves called of 
God for special work in either Home or Foreign Mission fields have 
crganized themselves into a Volunteer Band in order that they may 
study the special needs of the different fields and the way these needs 
may be best met. They have for their motto, "Where will my life 
count most for the Kingdom of God?" Their aim, is "Follow me." 

In Rusk Junior College, the following religious work is fostered, 
crganized prayer meetings in each dormitory, Society of Religious In- 
quiry, Y. W. A., Baptist Student Mission Movement, B. Y. P. U. and 
a Volunteer Band. 

Religious life in Burleson is kept at a high standard. Morning 
prayer meetings were held throughout the year at the dormitories, 
and during the revival services many professed religion or reclama- 
tion, while quite a number surrendered for special service. The Volun- 
teer Band meets once a week. 

San Marcos Academy has a noonday faculty prayer meeting held 
every day in the year which is a source of great spiritual power, deep- 
ening and enriching the Christian life of the whole school. There are 
six B. Y. P. U.'s in the Academy. The Standard is used as a basis 
of report in the class room and its work is being recognized every- 
where. The fact that the school gave sixty thousand dollars in the 
campaign is largely the result of the students being informed. 

The religious life of Wayland College is kept at a high standard. 
Morning prayer meetings are held throughout the year at the dormi- 
tories. The anual revival services were held in February. A large 
and enthusiastic Voluntary Band meets regularly every week. 

Marshall College reports two B. Y. P. U.'s doing fine work 
Twelve young ladies dedicated their lives to special work as the Lord 
may direct. 



Page one hundred and thirteen 



Meeting Needs of Students in State Schools 

For nine years Baptists have felt the need of providing suitable 
religious environment and Bible class work for our Baptist boys and 
girls that attend our State schools. A good Baptist is a good citizen, 
keenly alive and loyal to the best interests of the State. Baptist citi- 
zens pay taxes and help build and maintain every State school. It is 
neither surprising nor objectionable that our State schools should 
have Baptist students in them. "The John C. Townes' Chair in the 
State University has been established by the Baptist General Conven- 
tion of Texas and the University Baptist church of Austin. It was 
opened in the Fall of 1919. The English Bible is taught from a liter- 
ary and historical point of view. Credits on degrees are given for this 
work. Our State Board is providing for Church life of students in 
State schools by putting student pastors and trained directors of re- 
ligious education in all of our State institutions. We will have five 
such workers in the State next year. 

Our students in State schools are being organized for active af- 
filiation with the church, to deepen their Christian faith, and train 
them for aggressive leadership in the church. 

The results of our first years' work at the University of Texas 
have been very gratifying. Two hundred and forty students were in 
full fellowship with the church, three hundred and seventy-five were 
enrolled in the Sunday school, one hundred and forty in B. Y. P. U., 
twenty-four volunteered for Christian work and about two hundred 
took summer normal courses. Twenty-nine took courses in the Bible 
for credit on their degree. Thus we are helping to save our young 
men and women from any tendency toward skepticism by offering 
them constructive knowledge of the Bible and Christianity. 



First Baptist Student Conference in Texas 

The first Baptist Student Conference of Texas has been held dur- 
ing the Palacious Encampment, June 2 9 to July 11. A visitor of the 
assembly grounds could not fail to be impressed with the number of 
college pennants displayed at the grounds. The following institutions 
were represented at the Conference: Baylor University, Baylor Col- 
lege, Simmons College, Howard Payne College, Burleson College, Dj- 
catur College, Rusk College, Wayland College, San Marcos Academy, 
University of Texas, Northwest Texas Normal College of Denton, West 
Texas Normal College of Canyon, and Rice Institute. 

During the discussions of the conference special attention was 
given to the Baptist churches adjacent to our institutions. Plans 
were suggested for bringing the students of our State in the closest 
possible touch with our Baptist churches. 

This organization is also adjustable to the needs of the Baptist 
students of our state institutions. Plans were made for a great Con- 
vention of the Baptist students of Texas to be held October 22-24 to 
meet at Brownwood. All the denominational interests will be em- 
phasized at this Convention and will be made the main gathering of 
Baptist students of Texas. 



Texas Baptists Encampments 

Our Baptist people have won the place they now hold because of 
the fact, that they have stood for sound principles. If the Baptist mes- 
sage is to fire the world in the future, we must train our young people 
to be sound in the faith. In these summer assemblies, our young 
people have the privilege of hearing the best talent that the denomina- 
tion can afford. We have three of these assemblies; they are: "Pa- 
lacious by the sea," Lampasas and Christoval. Each one is important 
and fills a place all its own. 



Page one hundred and fourteen 




BaptistWomen Mission Workers 

At our convention at Austin in 1915, Dr. B. D. Gray, secretary of 
the Home Mission Board, specifically asked the B. W. M. W. of Texas 
to follow the example of the noble women of other states m the estab- 
lishment of a memorial fund in the name of one of our loved leaders 
of the past or of the present. 

To Fannie Breedlove Davis 

Through individuals, God accomplishes His 
purposes. The B. W. M. W. of Texas wish to achieve 
a two-fold purpose in contributing to the Church 
Building Loan Fund. First, to help a great Home 
Missionary enterprise; second, to establish a memor- 
ial to Mrs. Fannie Breedlove Davis. 

Is it not a remarkable coincidence that Mrs. F.S. 
Davis, now president of the B. W. M. W in the same 
nlace where Mrs. F. B. Davis organized the lexas 
Baptisfwomen in 1880, should in 1915 in her open- 

Fannie^Breedlov, ^^^ pay the following tribute: 

i n * +ho nnqqine of Mrs. Fannie Breedlove 

This year has nurtrttto g^*« wh0 _ when the new 

Dayis, first president of the B W M, w^ o ghe 

year dawned, tell upon t hat la on g e ar - ^^ and ^^ 

shall not awake until Resunec t °" " a * . , d in the rganiza- 

uinCrsalfy acknowledged power, and unquestionable enduran e. She 
wrought nobly. Hallowed be her memory. She will be ensnnne 
in our hearts, and will live in our affections always. 

The influence of this godly woman will undoubtedly last for 
many generations to come; with strength of mind, strength of soul, 
^e did her work with intelligence and wisdom she laid far-reaching 
Plans with high purpose she achieved them with a wmnin^person 
ality she enlisted the help of others; and with a heart full of devo to 
and humble faith, and relying upon God, she made the foundation 



sure. 



"She possessed the faculty that is better than any one sense, bet- 
ter than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than ex- 
perience, the best product of the longest life, the f acuity most dimeo 
all,— the faculty of drawing people to her purpose and holding them 
faithfully to her achievements, by which she multiplied herself by 
hundreds and thousands." 



'page one hundred and fifteen 




Mrs. W. L. Williams 



In 1895, Mrs. W. L. Williams succeeded Mrs 
Fannie B. Davis as president of the Texas W. M. U. 
(then Baptist Women Missionary Workers) and 
most faithfully and lovingly guided the affairs of the 
organization, inspiring others by her strong faith 
and consecrated life. 

Since giving up the presidency of the W. M. U., 
Mrs. Williams has voluntarily served as "House 
Mother" in the Southwestern Training School, giv- 
ing herself, without stint, to the students and to beautifying the 
campus. 

Long will the fragrance of her deeds sweeten and uplift those 
who strive for that which is best in life. 



After eleven years of service, Mrs. Williams re- 
signed, and Mrs. Mary Hill Davis was elected presi- 
dent, and for fourteen years she has served with a 
skill unsurpassed, and enjoys the love, esteem, and 
confidence of all the Baptist women of Texas. 




Mrs. Mary Hill Davis 




f 





Mrs. Mattie Hosea Mrs. Kittie Lackey 
Reeves Stokes 



Mrs. Annie Breaker 
Court 



Mrs. Lillie Jamcj 
Myer 
Now a member of 
Baylor Faculty 




Mrs. E. Homer Tirej 



These four Baylor women have been efficient 
District Presidents. 



Mrs. E. Homer Tirey has been a most effi- 
cient president of the district in which Baylor Col- 
lege is located. When we began the Million Dollar 
Campaign for the Loyalty Loan, she did a great 
work for Christian education by giving her personal 
services to traveling for the cause. 



Page one hundred and sixteen 



FOREWORD 

Our Purpose in compiling ^is ^^"^ in the 
a review of the history of Baylor ■, a » a tne P ai i i memo _ 

&To^^^^^ 

arfd rh e S Toc d ee b ds f?o m Te at saTe o°f MKMUV enahle 

many fleshing Sirls te obtain an education. 

I, the general arrangement and the -Petition of some ^pictures 

and reading matter seem Pu^li^ ^rtaken by those who were busy 
that this has been a labor of love undeitaKmrDy g ^ jt 

with many other tasks, an d*ho were unable ^ne , mate rial has 

the care and attention which it/eally deservea . g 

been gathered hurriedly, and the record is i»P ^ 

fhTre^s terno\^ e pt S a! S a eS fuii n ac e co^t, g and P no strict regard for 



order 



One section constitutes the Jubilee .Quarterly and [there a^e two 
supplements, one for the students of the Sg 1 ^ but with 
£^^^^M.^W.S^ -'he volume 
as a whole. 

To meet the expense of Pf ^^'ffJttwTJ 
onlTfeaV^ge^m^ 



dltterence ~ th e size of pictures will appear because some 

cuts, instead of photographs were se nt_ the ed rtor ajffe) . 

A difference in dates is due to the tact, "'* ^ dl > o( a schoo i. 

^Mt^^ 

<late ^eCS MEfto give credit to -rit- because in a booh 

of this kind nearly everything is quoted from some one. 



P a 



hundred and seventeen 



Glimpses Through the 
Passing Years 

Baylor's First Home 



w****** 





Judge R. E. 
Baylor 



B. 



Tryon Hall at Independence 



Independence, Washington 
County, Texas, was for forty-one 
years the home of the Baylors. 
The best of all the buildings there 
is named in honor of William 
Melton Tryon, who with Judge 
Baylor, founded Baylor Universi- 
ty. Near this memorable build- 
ing Judge Baylor lay buried for 
forty-four years. 




Rev. James Huckins 
Baylor's first finan- 
cial agent 



Z. N. Morrell, in his "Fruits and Flowers, of Forty-six Years in 
Texas," says of Tryon: "He was a man of medium size, with an erect, 
well-proportioned physical structure; his dark penetrating eye, abo^e 
which appeared a full, well-formed forehead, impressed every man 
who looked upon him as to his intellectual powers. His piety was 
deep and earnest; and while he was, by nature, a leader among his 
fellows, his great desire was to lead them all to Christ. As an orator, 
my profound conviction is that no preacher has ever lived in Texas 
who was his equal." 



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one hundred and eigteen 




Independence in the clays of the forties and fifties was a quaint 
old town, prosperous, and an ideal spot for the location of Baylor. 
There was ever present an atmosphere of refinement and culture. 
The young man who had a lofty ambition and was of good character 
found a ready passport into the inner circles, though he wore "hodden 
gray" and never had a surplus dime in his pocket. The citizens feJt 
great pride in Baylor, and arranged their services, social gatherings 
and picnics so that students might participate in them; in turn, they 
enjoyed the numerous literary and musical advantages offered by the 
school. 



Independence is now an 
old town which long ago 
ceased to be anything but 
picturesque, but whose 
people have never for- 
gotten that it was once a 
prosperous town, with a 
glorious past. 



Baylor College at Independence;. 

On February 1, 184 5, the charter of Baylor University, with pro- 
visions for a separate department for women, was signed by Anson 
Jones, President of the Texas Republic. January 12, 1846, H. L. 
Graves of Gecrgia, was elected President of the School and Mr. H. L. 
Gillette chosen teacher of the Preparatory Department. Professor 
Gillette opened school on May 18, 1816, with twenty-four students, in a 
two-story frame building which was included in the Independence bid. 
The enrollment increased until there were seventy students before the 
year was out, and an assistant was employed. It is interesting to 
note here, that Judge A. S. Lipscomb and R. E. B. Baylor were the 
first unpaid teachers of law, while George W. Baines Sr., was the first 
chosen teacher of theology. 



One of Baylor's earliest friends was General 
Sam Houston, who made the first large gift for min- 
isterial education, of three hundred and thirty dol- 
lars. General Houston was baptized by Dr. R. C. 
Burleson, November 19, 1845. 



In 18 4 8, a two-story building of two large rooms 
was begun and completed the following year. Also 
a move for an endowment of $10,000 was begun, the 
interest on which was to pay the President's salary. 
As Dr. Carroll says, "During the years from 1845 to 
1851, the work was hard and the sacrifices made by 
some were great, but lasting foundations were laid." 
The usual, but not quite the invariable, contract with the faculty, 
so far as the renumeration was concerned, was to receive the in- 
come from the school — always embarrassingly small. 




Gen. Sam Houston 



Page one hundred and nineteen 



Baylor Female College Faculty of 1851 

First year after Baylor College was removed from the Baylor 
University hill to her own hill a mile distant. 

Rev. Horace Clark, Principal and Professor of Ancient Lan- 
guages, Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. 

Miss Harriet L. Davis, Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 

Mrs. Martha D. Clark, History and English Literature. 

Mrs. Martha D. Clark, Drawing, Painting and Embroidery. 

Miss E. B. Scott, Music — Instrumental. 



In 1851, Dr. Rufus C. Burleson decided to 
separate the male and female departments. The 
buildings were situated one mile apart on opposite 
hills. The male department was to be conducted 
in the stone building known as Grave's Hall, in 
honor of the first president, and the female depart- 
ment conducted in the frame building used as the 
Independence Academy. 




&J 



Mrs. Harriet 
Davis Fitzgerald 




When Dr. Clark was offered the principalship 
of the girls department of Baylor, at the time of the 
separation of the boys and girls in 1851, he rode 
on horseback from LaGrange to Independence, 
looked over the situation and promised to take it 
provided a new building could be erected. The 
building was provided and he began the work in 
September of that year. 

He went in a wagon the distance of two hun- 
dred miles to purchase flour and other provisions 
for the college. 

Dr. Horace Clark 

When Dr. and Mrs. Clark took Baylor into their 
hearts, it was with a deep-rooted confidence in God and a firm reliance 
upon the Baptists of Texas. There was no money with which to pay 
the salaries of principal, or teachers, and nothing but a small two- 
story frame house for school purposes. It took courage that was sub- 
lime in its activity to undertake the enterprise. The emergency was 
before them and must be met. Dr. Clark gathered a corps of teach- 
ers of a high order of scholarship and formulated the cirriculum for 
the coming session, which was to begin the first Monday in August, 
1851. A home for boarding pupils was secured and furnished with 
as many comforts and conveniences as the short time and the mea- 
gerness of supplies permitted. There was not one mile of railroad 
in Texas at that time, and no furniture store nearer than the town of 
Houston, a distance of seventy-five miles; the only means of trans- 
portation was wagons, drawn by oxen, the journey occupying from 
ten to twenty days. 

In the first ten years of Baylor's History, there were only two 
graduates, one each from the male and female departments, Stephen 
D. Rowe and Miss Mary Gentry Kavanaugh. December 20, 1855, at 
a called meeting of the trustees, a diploma was conferred on Miss Mary 



Page one hundred and twenty 



Gentry Kavanaugh, the first graduate of the female department of 
Baylor University. The occasion brought visitors from far and near 
Houston, LaGrange, Anderson, Chappel Hill, Washington, Cald- 
well — and a flutter of excitement and interest was created which 
spread all over the state. 

From the minutes of the Baptist State Convention, dated 1853, 
the committee made the following report: "The Baylor Female Col- 
lege, or the female department, should not be overlooked by us, nor 
should its merits be forgotten. Brother Clark, its excellent princi- 
pal, is one of the most accomplished instructors in this or any other 
state. He has secured a most efficient corps of teachers, and in this 
number is the finished music teacher, Professor Fox." 



Baylor College In the Sixties 




Mrs. Carey McNelly Wroe. 

My parents, who were devoted Baptists, placed me in Baylor Col- 
lege in 1861, where I remained until June, 1865. 

These were sad days through which the students passed. Our 
school days were shadowed by terrible struggles, for all the students 
had fathers, brothers, or other kindred in "the ranks" and oftentimes 
came the death message that another one was bereft of a dear kins- 
man who had made the supreme sacrifice. Ten of these messages 



Page one hundred and twenty-one 



came. But we gave concerts in the college to raise money for the 
soldiers and often sang the "Bonnie Blue Flag," "Maryland," and 
dear old "Dixie Land," while waving our Confederate flags. When 
our boys in gray came marching by, we stood on the roadside in front 
of the college, and again sang these patriotic songs, while they hastily 
partook of luncheons prepared by the loyal women of Independence. 
Those were sad days, when they came marching home, having endured 
the trials and vicissitudes and at last defeat. Our hearts were almost 
broken to see the changes in their appearance, but we greeted them 
with loving attention and showered them with flowers. 

Our formal commencement exercises were abandoned, all essays 
and music prepared were patriotic, and the college closed in mourn- 
ful weeping and farewells, for all of us, were shrouded in gloom; we 
knew not when we should meet again. 




Another Picture of Baylor at Independence 

Memory takes me back many years, as the 
days spent in Baylor at Independence pass in re- 
view. Happy, carefree days they were, too. House- 
keepinig was a part of our education. Conveniences 9 
We knew them not. Kerosene lamps, bare floors, 
crude furniture, but oh, how spotlessly clean these 
rooms were kept! Bath rooms, did you say? No 
indeed! 

The world was shut out and we had an earnest 
Mrs. Ebbie Higdon student body. If there was ever a failure, no sec- 
ond chance was given. Our reports were printed in 
black or gold, signifying our general average. A black report was 
more to be dreaded than the plague. Walking was an imperative 
duty. One of the joys of this walking hour was watching the glorious 
sunsets over the hills of Independence. 

The Baylors were beautiful, for they occupied the highest points 
of two hills. Shall we ever forget that long walk to the foot of the 
hill where we worshipped in a little church of which Dr. William 
Carey Crane was pastor? Sunday School and sermon over, the top of 
the hill was reached once more. If we were tired, we immediately for- 
got it, for when we reached the stile, the odor of steaming, brown tur- 
keys, roasted as only Ann Tatters could roast them, made "good diges- 
tion wait on appetite." 

Do you think we suffered for amusements, ye lovers of cold 
drinks, "movies," and victrolas? Not so long as the berries covered 
the acres back of us, or the mail hack came. 

Baylor's foundations are deep and sure, her cornerstone none 
other than Matthew 28:19-20. Her presidents, our most honored 
men. 



Page one hundred and twenty- two 



After Thirty Years 

By Mrs. Blli Moore Townsend. 

1 c iQifi the Ions cherished de- 
Saturday afternoon ..September 16 1916 ■ *°J°J ^ Mg sister , 
sire of my heart wasluU med w hen M r independence alt twrt y 
Josephine, came to take me to <,olden-rod and autumn's 

years absence. It was the season of the go. Id^n o ^ 

coming glory, when all nature » m ^ * ™ prairies Just as the 
sacred memories. We drove on t through^ he ^ ^ , n 

last lingering sun ^ys k^sed them goodmght ^ 

this village of hallowed memories 7^™^ darkness veiled 
the old University building. The fast ; app roacMn g 
from my eager, longing eyes, the dear old hirtom ^to ^ 

ence, named for our national .deals ot social, civic a g 



memories! 



The early morning sunlight stealing °™^J^™™^ 
the hearts of millions ot dewdrops cast a di apery glo 
any picture my eyes had ever looked upon. 

Too deep for tongue or pen to express were the emotion^ that 

tilled my soul as I visited ^^^f.f^^road where Dr. and Mrs. 
Baylor's grave; then across the W 1 ™ » '» and gister Bag - 

Luther and all the student body went to mee t B ot brfore 

by, when they made their first visit home |*«w^™ leave th0 

we reached the old college building „**!?«„ no, half in ruins. 
bugg y and walk alone to he old*to~*«* mg ^ ^ ^^ 
1 approached from the south entrance aid pas ^ fte 

i was converted then to the ^^^n^ of that perfect 
fast crumbling wall. there, ln L promise of peace and 

Sabbath day, I ™?™^ "JeJel Tm that I was on the border 
joy of the Heavenly Rest. It seeme d to 1(j gwfee1 ._ 

iand of the Heavenly ideal, and had a toe*- ^ ^^ fl 

ness. The memory of the most viv u y blotting out, for 

young womanhood came over my soul like a "°°£ h 

the moment all other thoughts, g.vu ig me the mos 7 
the most thriliing ideals that human ^1 can oh ens ^ 

on the dear old campus sang aloud to m ^of ^>^« ted> loud - 

t^u^m t^P^ t/rof'thtngs 6 u^e and high, and holy; of 
Hf e and its meaning, of sacrifice, joy and hope. 

• , • ;+ t wpnt to the old rock church in the 
From this morning's visit I wen to the o Hairston> my 

grove, to be taught in Sunday School by Mi. ^ ^ d&y 

Sunday School teacher of forty years ago. e ^ RoWn . 

was also the organist ol LOity yeais ago, i pilgrimage. Be- 

son, who happened to be in Independence on a similai pilgnmag 



Page one 



hundred and twenty-three 



fore the close of the day I must go back on the hill, and visit again the 
room in the boarding house where my roommates and I shared half the 
third floor. From the west window I looked down on the grave of 
Miss Mary Davis, whose life had been such an inspiration to me. Who 
can measure the power of a well spent life of service! 

Oh, the splendor of those Independence sunsets! Streams of golden 
glory flood the earth. The snow capped mountains of the sky are 
touched with fire, while all the west is a riot of glorious color fading 
away at the last from the soft mauves into the indigo of the deepening 
sky. The soul can but think of John's vision of our final Home, 
with its gates of pearl, its streets of gold, its rivers of the waters of 
life. 

From these tender memories, I was called by 
the insistent voice of tasks yet incomplete back to 
my work-a-day realities. So with Monday's rising 
sun, I hastened on to Brenham and to duties that 
awaited me, my heart filled with gratitude for the 
delightful visit with my dear Independence friends, 
and old Baylor's first home. 

While visiting Independence, I was entertained 
in the home of Mrs. Mary Jane Haynes Shannon, 
who was a student in Independence Baylor Acade- 
Kate Haynes my. She has passed on to her reward but her 

Hudson children kept the home. She entered the first ses- 

sion of Baylor and would have been one of the first graduates, but 
sickness a few weeks before the close of the school, prevented. By 
request, she read the valedictory, the first ever read in Baylor. She 
received a silver medal with the picture of the first academy on it; 
the first medal that Baylor University ever awarded. This medal 
was shown in Alma Reeves Chapel during the Diamond Jubilee. Her 
sister, Mrs. Kate Haynes Hudson, and her son, Tom Shannon, who is 
the grandson of two of Baylor's Charter Trustees, sat on the stage 
with others who represented these two historic Independence families, 
Shannon and Haynes. 




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Baylor at Belton 




First Buildingfat Belton 

After forty-one years the long expected move was made and 
Baylor has been established in her permanent home at beautiful his- 
toric Belton for these thirty-four years. 

April 21, 18 8 6, the corner stone was laid for Luther Hall. The 
committee was extremely anxious that nothing should mar the ceremo- 
nies of the occasion. Mr. W. D. Woodruff, agent for the Wells Fargo 
Company, was intrusted with getting the corner stone on the grounds. 
A great deal of writing and wiring was done to get the stone de- 
livered on time; but the appointed day came, and the stone had not 
arrived. There was more nervous telegraphing, as the crowd gath- 
ered. The morning train came, but without the stone. Finally a 
message came from Echo, a little station on the Missouri, Kansas & 
Texas, and a few miles south of Temple, stating: "The rock you have 
been fussing so much about has been dropped here this morning." A 
message flew over the wires to the superintendent of the division ask- 
ing permission to send a special train after the stone. Permission was 
received and the stone was brought to Belton in time for the cere- 
mony. 




Baylor Enlarged 

"Look to the day! For it is life, the very light of life. In its 
Drief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence: the 
bliss of youth; the story of action; the splendor of beauty. For yes- 
terday is always a dream, and tomorrow is always a vision. But to- 
day, well-lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and 



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every tomorrow a vision of hope." How true are these sentiments, 
yet we can improve the present, and prepare for the future by raising 
the curtain of the past and reflecting on its lessons. 

More than thirty years ago, there was one picture hung on the 
walls of my memory which grows brighter as the shadows lengthen — 
Baylor College — where peace rested, and justice reigned. "There 
were many minds but one great heart," whose every throb seems to 
say, "Baylor for Jesus!" and the echo still vibrates , and revibrates 
through the years — Baylor for Jesus. Yes, I believe that this phrase 
will ever be the slogan for Baylor College. 

The picture can never be dimmed by time, but grows brighter 
and more beautiful with the passing of the years. It was a bene- 
diction to be with the pupils and the teachers of this Christian school. 
These reminiscences of the past make us feel very forcibly the words 
of Daniel Webster who said: "If we work upon marble it will perish. 
If we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples they will 
crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue 
them with principles, with the just fear of God and the love of their 
fellowman, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten 
through all eternity." VIRGINIA WESTBROOK. 

Some events preceding the present day period of expansion: 

In 1911, Baylor summer school opened, to be conducted every 
summer. In 1913, the Summer Normal was begun. In the same 
year the Teacher's Institute was held in Baylor College for the Bell 
County teachers. In 1919, it became a tri-county teacher's institute, 
for the teachers of Bell, Williamson and Milam counties. 

Also, in September, 1911, a library acceptable to the State De- 
partment of Education was completed, enabling the students of the 
college to secure first grade and permanent certificates upon the 
basis of their college work. 

February 1, 1912, the first permanent certificate was received 
by one of our graduates, Miss Myrtle Higginbothum. 

In June of this year we celebrated our second Homecoming, 
which was marked by two great events: the inauguration of President 
J. C. Hardy, and the presentation, by Miss Sue Cochran, of "Baylor's 
Twenty-five Years History at Belton." 

June 12, 1912, Dr. Hardy took charge of Baylor, as President. 
The following was taken by a reporter: 

"This is the first time in the last sixteen years that a president 
of this institution has been inaugurated; Dr. W. A. Wilson, the former 
president, who resigned a year ago, had served fifteen years consecu 
tively. Baylor College, which was chartered sixty-seven years ago, 
is the oldest college for women in the Southwest. Many of the for- 
mer students are here this week for the Homecoming. 

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me inauguration of President Hardy was attended with fitting 
ceremonies Following the invocation, the program was opened with 
two violin selections by Miss Louise Stanley. Dr. S. P. Brooks, Presi- 
dent of Baylor University welcomed the new president in behalf of 
that institution, and Reverend J. M. Dawson, pastor of the First Baptist 
Church of Temple, welcomed him on behalf of the board of trustees of 

Baylor College. 

The keys of the college were formally presented to the President- 
elect by acting President E. G. Townsend, following which Dr. Hardy 
stepped forward amid the applause of the students, trustees, patrons 
and friends of the school, and delivered his inaugural address, setting 
forth the aims and hopes which he entertained for the institution 
with which he has become connected." 

Dr. Hardy said in part: "My highest ambition is to be worthy 
of this confidence and with an unfaltering trust in the wisdom and 
guidance of our Heavenly Father, and with an abiding faith in the full 
co-operation of the Baptists of Texas, of the board of trustees, of the 
Alumnae Association, of the faculty and student body and our many 
friends throughout the state, I shall go forth in this work with 3 oy and 

O" 1 o fl 1 1 P S S 

Our task is a noble and inspiring one. Therefore let us all here, 
and now, dedicate our heads, our hands, our hearts to this work that 
shall result in a greater nation, in a greater South, in a greater Texas, 
in a greater denomination, and in a greater Baylor. Now, "O Lord 
God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget." 

February 22, 1913, a meeting of importance to our Baptist 
schools was called. Representatives from all the correlated schools 
met at Baylor College to arrange a uniform course in Bible An ac- 
quaintance of the Bible is essential in any scheme of education The 
courses offered by our Christian schools will form a basis for a thor- 
ough knowledge of God's Word which, aside from its educational value, 
shall also prove an important factor in true development of charactei. 

Credit began to be given for Bible on first grade certificate in 
January, 1920. 

In March, 1914, Mrs. E. G. Townsend began her $50,000 life in- 
surance for the endowment of the college. 

Tn 1914 a fourth story was added to the Main Dormitory. A 
year later a'two-story dormitory, Ferguson Hall, was built for teach- 
ers In 1918, sleeping porches for Luther Hall were added a year 
fater another dormitory for teachers was erected and named Heard 
Ha! in honor of its donor. In 1919, the Main Dormitory was named 
Lutlier Hall In 1920, the Administration Building was named the 
Wilson Administration Building in honor of one of our beloved presi- 
dents, Dr. W. A. Wilson, at the meeting of the Baptist General Con- 
vention at Austin. 

In 1913, a fourth story was added to the Main Dormitory. A 
pleted. The following June, 1916, the details were earned out and 
the blending of the two departments under one board of trustees was 
completed. 

During the seventy-fifth year Baylor College enrolled 1517 
students. 

In 1920, the three Jubilee Buildings were completed, and Baylor 
College opened the fall term with one thousand students. 



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What is Baylor? 

Baylor does not consist merely of material equipment, teachers, 
and students, but she is a Spirit, intangible, unseen, yet keenly felt. 

The power of Baylor is a chain and you are a link in this chain, 
which now circles the globe. What an individual responsibility each 
of us has! To think that you and I bear the stamp of Baylor! 

We should endeavor to make it the best and most coveted trade 
mark in all the world by upholding the honor and ideals of Baylor 
to the best of our ability; thus enabling the production, though varied 
in composition and preparation, still to retain a sweetness and 
strength that goes forward to bless the world. Remember that you 
are a link in the chain and that wherever you are, you represent 
Baylor and all for which she stands to that particular community. 

Then, Baylor is a Lighthouse. She is a city set on a hill. If we 
would let our light shine into all the world the current at home must 
be sufficiently strong to send the light to the dark places. Wires and 
bulbs are also necessary, for of what consequence is all the power on 
earth without means of communication. 

If Baylor is to be felt in our own state, the United States and the 
world, each girl must -consciously and definitely face the question of 
life investment. Proof that we are finding our place in the world is 
that we are sending trained Christian women into all the world and 
girls from all the world are coming to us for light. Then, we must 
know the needs and project ourselves into them. The needs of this 
old world are many, but most of all it needs the things which you and 
I can give — unselfish, consecrated teachers, queenly women and 
Christian homes. 

Let us strive to be as corner stones, polished after the similitude 
of a palace. CAMELLE SEVIER. 



Beginning Ruth Stribling Hall 





Lucile Smelser 



Breaking dirt for the erection of Ruth 
Stribling Hall. 

March 20, 1920, the breaking of the dirt for the 
erection of Ruth Stribling Hall took place. All stu- 
dents and teachers were assembled on this most sig- 
nificant occasion. 

Lucile Smelser, a representative of the third 
generation of her family in Baylor College, handed 
the spade to Mr. J. H. Pepper, who began the 
breaking of the ground for the erection of this 
building. Speeches in honor of the gift of Mr. Strib- 
ling were made by Dr. J. C. Hardy, Mrs. E. G. Town- 
send, Rev. E. C. Ely, and Mr. J. H. Pepper. 



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Notes From Class Records and 
Organizations 

Our plan cf endowment would indeed be a farce without the co- 
c Deratton and hearty support of the classes who have gone out from 
Jhese classic halls of learning. We have collected, as will show be- 
lcw, notes from many of our graduating classes. 

CLASS OF 1856. 

The class of 1856 was composed of Miss Zilphia Fuller of Hous- 
ton and Miss Carrie Mooney of Gonzalez. Their parents were pioneer 
seluers in Texas; an d people of sterling integrity of character, who 
gave aid and encouragement to building for God and native land. 

CLASS OF 1858. 

This class is very fittingly called the "Famous 
Class of '58" because of the great record of its 
members. Mrs. Fannie Rodgers Harris, Mrs. Dora 
Pettus Hobby, mother of Governor Hobby, and Mrs. 
Charles Stewart and Mary McKellar Herndon, both 
wives of congressmen; Mrs. C. R. Breedlove and 
others of distinction: the mother of a Governor ot 
Texas- also the mother of a United States Congress- 
man: and the wives of two of our National Congress- 
men, come from this class. 

Baylor is represented in the last three gover- 
nors of Texas. Mrs. James E. Ferguson, wife oi 
ex-Governor Ferguson, was a Baylor College girl. 

Mrs. Hobby, mother of W. P. Hobby, present gov- 
ernor, was also a student of Baylor College. She 
did a great work in raising a son who became the 
chief executive in the state. There has been no 
Governor in Texas who has left a better and more 
honorable record than W. P. Hobby. 

Pat Neff recently elected Governor, was a Bay- 
lor graduate.' He has been a trustee of Baylor Uni- 
versity, and has shown great love and loyalty to 
Baylor. 

CLASS OF 1866. 

Mrs T E H Mclver, Mrs. Winnie Goodwin Swearingen are mem- 
bers o this the last class before Baylor College was severed from 
the University which was done September 22, 1866. Both ot tnese 
g^-aduaies have had their only daughters graduate m Baylor College. 

Mrs Julia Eliza Harris Mclver, who is one of Baylor's most hon- 
ored Alumnae? is the wife of Judge A. W. Mclver who was a trustee , ot 
Baylor College from the year of its removal to Bel ton m 1866 to the 

^^wa^sffi 1865-1866, then taught with 

President Fitzgerald In 1868, until school was suspended on account 
of yellow feve! Again she taught with President Horace Clark m 
18691870, with President Fontaine in 1874-1875, and with President 
Wilson from 1897-1901. In all these more than fifty years she has 
been the firat to respond to every appeal of the Alumnae Association. 



Mrs. Dora Petti 
Hobby 




W. P. Hobby 



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CLASS OF 1867. 

Mrs. Mary Rogers Bolton was a member of the first graduating 
class under the separate charter of Baylor College. Her sister Fannie 
Rogers Harris graduated nine years before. Both were at Baylor 
University at the awarding of new degrees. Both of these sisters 
have had their daughters graduate from Baylor College at Belton. 

CLASS OF 1868. 

Mollie Houston Morrow and Nettie Houston Bringhurst of class 
of 1868, are the daughters of General Sam Houston. Mrs. Bring- 
hurst is a poet and on April 21, at old Independence, in the seventies, 
she delighted, with her poems, Baylor students and all who attended 
the noted celebrations of San Jacinto Day. 

CLASS OF 1870. 

Mrs. Kate Haynes Hudson is a daughter of a charter member of 
our Board of Trustees. Mrs. Hudson lived at old Independence and 
graduated from Baylor College. She represented the famous Haynes 
family at the Diamond Jubilee Celebration, June 7, 1920. 

CLASS OF 1879. 

Dr. Luther's first graduating class. 




CLASS OF 1885 

Special distinction is given two 
mothers of this class because 
their two daughters graduated 
together in 1912. 




Mrs. Elli Whitfield 
Strickland 



Elli Moore Ault 



CLASS OF 1886. 

Last class at Independence. 

CLASS OF 1887. 
First Class at Belton. 

CLASS OF 1895. 

Class of Golden Jubilee celebration. 

CLASS OF 1896. 

Last class while Dr. Wells was president. 

CLASS OF 1897. 

Dr. Wilson first graduating class: Miss Martha Dowell and Miss 
Junia Osterhout were members of the Golden Jubilee class of 1895, 
and were beloved teachers in the college for many years. Miss Oster- 
hout left us last year to teach in Virginia. 

SENIOR NOTES 1900. 
Last Class of the Last Century. 

'Tis sweetest memories cluster around happy days; so will March 
second be one of the many days which Baylor graduates will hold m 
dearest memory. 

It is this day, Mrs. Townsend invited us to eat oysters and be hap- 
py with her. All formality was laid aside and we indulged in good old 
fashioned pleasures. 

' The Class Day program for Monday afternoon, June 11, 1900, was 
novel because wholly original. There was a freshness and a hearti- 
ness throughout, that attracted the audience and sustained their in- 



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terest to the end. We are glad that the students of the outgoing 
class of 1900 (of the "zero class" as they style themselves), together 
with the incoming class of 1901, caught so well the inspiration of this 
cccasion, marking the unseen boundary between two centuries. 

CLASS OF 1901. 

It was about the year 1900 that Mary Nash College closed and 
the cultured Mrs. Martha Nash brought to Baylor her invaluable per- 
sonal services and influence. She sought to infuse into the student 
oody an "esprit de corps." She instituted the custom of annual do- 
nations, by classes, of something monumental, so the class of 1901 
gave the large cast-iron campus vase. 

CLASS OF 1902. 
The class of 1902 had the stone seat made in Belton and placed 
beneath their class tree, the large post oak. The classes in music and 
expression, the same year, had the two small gate columns erected. 

CLASS OF 1903. 

The classes of this year erected the large gate columns and iron 
gates. 

CLASSES OF 1904-1905. 
The classes of 1904-'05, built the beautiful fountain in the center 
of the campus encircled by the drive. It was during the year of 1905 
that excavation was made for the new administration building. For 
some months the "hole-in-the-ground" was even made the butt of 
cruel jokes. 

CLASS OF 1906. 

In this year a campaign for funds was launched and cash and bor- 
rowed money aggregating $39,365.37 was paid. This senior class 
built the broad concrete walk along the front of the dormitory. 

CLASS OF 1907. 

The stone basement walls of the present Administration Building 
were completed and the corner stone laid with appropriate exercise in 
1907. In the Blue Bonnet of this year we find a very suggestive car- 
toon showing Dr. Wilson bringing in a very wonderful specimen of 
geology for the corner stone. The zero seven class gave the Senior 
Reading Room, located in the Administration Building. 

Officers of "Last Class Graduating in the Old Chapel": Presi- 
dent, Grace Wilson; Prophet, Hannah Pair Sallee; Poet, Berthel 
Townsend Batte. Lula Caudell and Berthel T. Batte were mission- 
aries for a year or more. Berthel T Batte now lives in Mexico. 
(Many members of this class are distinguished missionaries and 
teachers.) Mrs. Juliette Bozeman Touchstone goes with this group 
of Famous Girls. 

CLASSES OF 1908. 

The very beautiful dome of Alma Reeves Chap- 
el was the gift of the class of 1908. 

This was the first Class to graduate in the 
Alma Reeves Chapel. There were thirty graduates 
in the class, some whose pictures we could not get, 
President, Eddie Wilcox Bush; Historian, Cora 
Spurlin Crook; Treasurer, Winnie May Cain Reed. 

Members of the Sophomore class who appear 
elsewhere as distinguished are: Sara Whitfield, 
Johnny Terry Riggs, Lura Jones, Lucy Adams Pitts. 

Members of the Junior class who appear else- 
where as distinguished are: Kathryn Bowen, Zeola 
Philen, Josephine Kaye. 




Eddie Wilcox 
Bush 



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CLASS OF 1909. 

Miss President and Dear Girls: 

Our work for the college last year has been greatly appreciated 
and has been of more value perhaps than we realize. Therefore, I 
make a motion if it is in order, Miss President, that we as a class con- 
tinue each year our efforts towards ccmpleting and equipping the 
Gymnasium. It has been in constant use this year even in its un- 
finished condition. We must have the walls plastered by September. 
Our class will certainly be unwilling to do less this year than we did 
last. The liberal offer just made by the Alumnae Quarterly gives us 
the opportunity we need to help in a double way. If we, as a class, 
will secure fifty subscribers each in the next six months, that will give 
us a sum of fifteen dollars each. This will make our total class con- 
tribution four hundred and twenty dollars. Should one fail to secure 
her full amount, let some one better suited to do this work help her out, 
but let us see that our class work does not faulter. Yours for class 
spirit and success of the Gymnasium. 

— ETHEL ROBERTS. 

CLASS OF 1911. 

It is interesting to note here, that the class phrophecy when 
Nannie David finished school, in 1910 has come true. It stated that 
a couple of classmates, in traveling around the world, were royally 
entertained in Africa by Nannie David. 

She was appointed by the board on December 16, 1919, and as- 
signed to service as a trained nurse in Oyo, Africa. She sailed for her 
field on the Steamship Mobile, which left New York on August 2 5, 
1920. 

Through the efforts of the classes of 1909 and '10 the Gymnas- 
ium was equipped. While the class of '11 made substantial addition 
to the Library. 

EVENTS OF INTEREST TO SENIORS OF 1912. 

When the class of 1912 assembles in Baylor's halls for the Dia- 
mond Jubilee in 1920, surely they will recall the notable events of 
their senior year. First, they will recall the delightful Silver Anni- 
versary Celebration held on the thirteenth of September, 1911, com- 
memorating the twenty-fifth year of Baylor since her removal from 
Independence to Belton. They will remember that the second cause 
of rejoicing in the senior year was on the eve of the Silver Celebra- 
tion. At that time Baylor College received formal recognition from 
the State of Texas, of her right to grant teachers' certificates to her 
graduates. The third event of 1912 was an honor conferred by the 
Alumnae on the Senior Class in giving the class the responsibility of 
editing the Baylor College Quarterly, under the supervision of the 
Alumnae Association. 

In the history of our class you will find that we were champion 
athletes during the four years college career. 

Dezzia Arnett Roach, is noted for giving a Scholarship; Minnie Ar- 
nold, for raising money for the Loan Fund; Louise Bowen for holding 
the greatest number of honor offices of her class; and May Glass Ray, 
president of the class, married the Mascot. 

All of the class of 1912 are found elsewhere in this book as dis- 
tinguished. There were twenty-four seniors in the class. 

Lucile Auten first graduated in the literary department, class of 
1913. She has the distinction of receiving more diplomas from Baylor 
College than any other member of the Alumnae Association. 

Classes of 1913, 1914 and 1915 have given funds to be used in 
the erection of a Fine Arts Building. 



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HOMECOMING CLASS OF 1916. 

These Seniors have the honor of inaugurating the system of Stu- 
dent Self-Government. 

In June, at the Homecoming, a decided step was taken by 
the four college classes; each one selecting a definite object for which 
to work during the next four years. The Senior class, having but one 
year, selected for its object the preservation of relics. 

CLASS OF 1917. 

This class had for its object, or definite task, the collection and 
preservation of relics. The old "Independence Bell" was brought 
from Washington County, and mounted on Baylor College campus be- 
side the modern "Belton Bell." Judge R. E. B. Baylor's remains 
were brought to Belton and interred on the campus. 

CLx\SS OF 1918. 

This class took for its special object the planting of trees 
on the campus. In addition to this, they were responsible for the first 
weekly paper ever published in Baylor. This paper is known as, "The 
United Statements." With the assistance of Dean Splawn the Student 
League was organized this year. 

CLASS OF 1919. 

The "odd class" keeping in view their object, the making of a 
better library, gave to the college a file of all previous catalogues 
and a bound list of all graduates and Baylor publications. They re- 
newed, after a lapse of seven years, the publication of the "Blue Bon- 
net." The editing of the Annual is the privilege of every graduating 
class. Nor did this class neglect the beautifying of the campus, for 
they contributed a simple, but attractive, stone seat which was placed 
beneath an oak to the right of the fountain. The Senior Academy of 
this year also left a stone seat which attests the devotion of the class 
to its Alma Mater. 

CLASS OF 1920. 
Four Diamond Gifts. 

As the special interest of this class is diamonds, the members of 
the class realized that money invested in a life and the building of 
character would be worth far more than money invested in the most 
precious stone. My prayer is that God will continue to enrich their 
lives with service from which comes true happiness, and that He will 
guide me that I may in my small way carry out their noble ideals. 

OVILLA WOOD. 

A few short weeks of my being away from Baylor are making me 
realize that the words of our song are true: "Old Baylor, dear Baylor, 
my heart clings to thee." It is making me realize more than ever that 
Baylor is training us to fill the places in which we are to serve, be those 
places great, or only our little niche wherever we may be — and what 
more can a college do? EULA HAM. 

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A gift — a Diamond Gift! This is what I have received from the 
Sophomore Class in receiving from them the scholarship of 1919. 
Preparation is one of the greatest things in the world and it is im- 
possible to get any better preparation than by getting a college edu- 
cation. If it had not been for this scholarship from the class of 1919, 
I could not have gone on immediately with my preparation. 

EVELYN DAWSON. 

I feel sure that every one here this morning who knows me at all 
knows how very much I have appreciated what Baylor College has 
done for me. Yes, more than that; I appreciate what I believe Baylor 
College is going to do for me in the future, because I am here to stay. 
How thankful I was for the smiles, and encouraging words that were 
given me when I first came here. How happy I am because of new 
friendships I have, and most of all, how I appreciate what the Fresh- 
man Class of this year — my class — has done for me. 

GLADYS JOSEPH. 

CLASSES OF 1917, 1918, 1919 AND 1920. 

Four Diamond Gifts For the 1920 Jubilee. 

A gift, a diamond gift! The four diamonds gifts for the 
Jubilee are four girls — girls that have been honored as the recip- 
ients of a scholarship that in itself is the loving gift of each Fresman 
class of the four years just ended. Most commendable is it, that these 
freshmen may always have a student in Baylor College. In this 
manner the Midas gift from the individual Freshman, as if by magic, 
fashions itself into a living creature that ultimately becomes Baylor's 
gift to the citizens of the world. 

How prone are we to minimize the value of an individual gift of 
thirty cents a month for nine months — the plan which made possible 
the four diamond gifts — and yet how far-reaching the combined ef- 
forts of a few limited givers. It is time for us to cease undervaluing 
the apparently insignificant, for no worthy effort is lost in the great 
scheme of the Creator. On the other hand, we shall do well to con- 
template the truth that time expands the circle begun by the tiny gift 
cast upon the waters, and spreads its influence to some far distant 
shore. In like manner, it is our privilege as citizens and as women to 
expand the circle of our existence; first, in our own understanding 
and sympathy, and later in the influence that shall radiate from our 
more extended contact with the world that continues to stretch its 
unending sands before us. 

This Diamond Jubilee College class, when they were Freshmen 
gave ?(n Honor Scholarship to one of its members, this was followed by 
each class for three years, thus presenting a cluster of four diamonds at 
our last Charter Day exercises which was the Seventy-fifth Anniver- 
sary. In keeping with the spirit of this class, they took for their fu- 
ture work, the raising of $25,000 to endow the E. G. Townsend Bible 
Chair. 

The Diamond Jubilee Accademy seniors played a large part in 
beautifying the campus by giving the large vase in front of the Ad- 
ministration Building. 



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Organizations 



Our litereary societies make up one of the most important factors 
of college activities. The "Royall Academia Society" was the first 
society organized in Baylor. 

ROYALL ACADEMIA LITERARY SOCIETY. 

It was called the "Royall Academia Society" in honor of Dr. Wil- 
liam Royall, who was president of the college from 1875 to 1878. 
The society had for its object the careful study of the great masters of 
literature. Its motto is significant, "Vita sine Uteris mors est." Its 
colors are royal purple, lavender, and gold. In 1910 they contribu- 
ted their society library to the building up of a larger College Li- 
brary- 

HISTORICAL LITERARY SOCIETY 

The Historical Society was organized by Miss Elli Moore on 
February 22, 1883, during Baylor's days at Independence. The first 
year the society met to transact business and gave open programs 
four times a year. In September, 1887, Miss Moore called the society 
together and recommended, that while they would keep the same ul- 
timate object in view, they would meet every week and adopt the 
plans of a regular literary society. A new constitution was drafted 
and a motto: "Certum pete finem," was adopted. Crimson and gold 
were chosen as colors and much enthusiasm attended the new move- 
ment. A library fund and the collecting of books was soon begun, 
which later on was given to help make the larger college library. 

BAYLOR COLLEGE CLUB. 

This club at San Angelo is an example of many others in our 
towns and cities. It has been ten years since this account was written, 
but the picture of the president, Mrs. Johnson, who is our Lula Rob- 
erts, of the first graduating class of Belton, appears in another place 
in this book. She gives adequate proof of her loyalty to Baylor. 

Baylor! Baylor! This was the topic of conversation at the re- 
union given in honor of the Baylor College girls, of San Angelo, by 
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Chamberlain at their home Friday afternoon, 
August 6th, between 4 and 7 o'clock. 

There was never a more congenial crowd brought together. 

Promptly at 4:00 P. M. carriages began to arrive, and we were 
met at the door by Mrs. Chamberlain, assisted by Miss Wells; as we 
passed in the house, we were handed a badge of purple, white and yel- 
low, the Baylor colors. The house was beautifully decorated with 
the same colors. 

This is the first time in the history of San Angelo that the girls 
who have attended Baylor have ever assembled. There was much 
to talk over, and happy reminiscences of school days filled the hours. 
This was a very interesting meeting, as some of the ladies present at- 
tended Baylor in 1887. Our hearts thrilled when speeches were 
made by different ones, telling of the Christian influence and the 
good points to be learned at an institution of this kind. Mr. Cham- 
ber] ain, an ex-trustee of Baylor College, made a very impressive and 
interesting talk. Baylor songs were sung by Miss Minnie Wells, as- 
sisted by the Misses Rodgers. 

BAYLOR CLUBS. 

There is every reason why Texas women should be educated in 
r !>xas, and in no other way can this be more clearly demonstrated 
than through the medium of Baylor Clubs. With a background of 
so\enty-five years of uninterrupted progress, and a vision through 
the years to come of triumphant achievement, Baylor girls have a 

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r?oIid foundation on which to build their clubs. Every city and village 
of importance in Texas, should have its Baylor club, each with the 
same aim and object, and the aggregate membership should run into 
thousands. 

The membership is made up of women who have, through Chris- 
tian education, caught the vision of a higher service and a broader 
citizenship. It is quite a common thing to see mother and daughter 
working interestedly in the same club, and not uncommon to have a 
grandmother working with them. These women have banded together 
to promote the interests of Baylor College. At the same time they 
reap the joys of meeting together and doing co-operative work. 

THE LAMPASAS CLUB 

This club, in co-operation with other Baylor 
clubs, and Baylor friends, undertook the erection :>f 
a suitable building at Anderson Park, to be used 
during the Encampment which is held annually at 
that place. The summer of 1917 saw the comple- 
tion of the "Lodge," as it called, and Baylor girls 
„ ;?r^ are justly proud of it. 

Mrs. Marguerite J J ^ 

Hudnall Greenwood 

UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. 

Organized in 1903. 

By Miss Thomas. 

Our motto is, "Equal to adversity, superior to 
prosperity." But the Baylor College Chapter has 
the distinction of being a pioneer in this field of ac- 
tivity. Since its organization in 19 03, one hundred 
and twenty-two certificates of membership have 
been granted; and now, in spite of transferred and 
demitted members, there are eighty names on the 
Chapter roll. One member is a missionary in Mexi- 
co. One, who joined last session, will go to her 
home in Brazil, and in that far-away land beneath 
the Southern Cross, where, after the surrender, 
many Confederates with their families sought refuge 
and founded an American colony, she intends to organize a U. D. C. 
Chapter. 

To be a competent and helpful part of a great organization that has 
for its object the preservation of the history of the Confederacy is au 
honor, and should be an inspiration and incentive to work. Partly 
because of the earnest efforts of the U. D. O, some day the history of 
our Southland will be written with an impartial pen, and all the world 
may see and know, that not from hot temper, but from principle and 
patriotism, grew the Civil War. Then "laurels will blend with the 
race" for the heroes of Dixie who courageously fought and valiantly 
suffered in the dark days of the sixties. 

Encouraged and aided by generous friends, the Chapter will be 
enabled to place over one of the portals in the chapel, a marble bust 
of Lee. This bust was presented during the Diamond Jubilee. Thus 
a message will be delivered to present and future generations from the 
voiceless lips of him "who made Confederate resistance sublime." 

ATHLETIC CLUBS. 

Growing school girls usually need more exercise than they get 
at home and far more than they voluntarily take in a boarding hall. 
The more intense the student, the greater her need of compulsory re- 
laxation and recreation, the mingling of amusement with vigorous 
muscular action to clear the brain for further effort. 




Miss Mary Pettus 
Thomas 



One hundred and thirty-six 



Baylor provides strenuous games for the strong, the daily walk- 
ing line for the weaker, and carefully balanced gymnasium work for 
all. 

Baylor athletics seeks to touch the past, the present and future 
( f every student; her past, by aiding her to avoid or lessen the penal- 
ties of past omissions and commissions; her present and future by 
helping her to build a body strong enough to stand the steady strain 
cf earnest study by giving to her something to do. 

PALACIOS CLUB. 

Palacios also is the possessor of a Baylor Club House. The 
glad hand is extended to us, and the hospitality of its "Rest" is ours 
during the B. Y. P. U. Assembly. 

The following is a quotation from a paper read by Miss Emma 
King at the Palacios club meeting in 1908 before the house was 
erected. 

What greater pleasures could be ours than under these condi- 
tions, that students and ex-students of Baylor College should meet in 
converse sweet, to renew ties formed in other days, and to plan for 
the future of our great school for young women. 

We have with us today one who graduated from Baylor almost 
fifty years ago; others are here who have been honored alumnae for 
more than twenty-five years; while there are others whose view of life 
yet lies within the covers of college books; but however wide apart in 
years and thought we may be, one common chord makes our hearts 
vibrate, to which we sing in unison: Old Baylor, dear Baylor my 
heart clings to thee." 

Yet we would not have our meeting simply an expression of 
sweet sentiment, but from that sentiment we would have spring some 
deed worthy of the institution whose representatives we are. May we 
not link hands and hearts, and here on this beautiful assembly ground 
erect a fit place over which our purple and gold and white may wave : 
beneath which we may assemble to talk of the good times of yore, 
and of the better days to come. 

More than sixty years ago, when Baylor College began her 
young life, her strength and support came from the fathers and moth- 
ers and daughters of South Texas. Their eyes caught visions of her 
future beauty and grandeur in the days when she was struggling for 
existence. They guided her faltering steps, they believed in her, 
they trusted her; today her daughters from North, East and West 
Texas would thank the great hearted people of this section for making 
it possible for the Baylor of today to exist. We trust that your faith 
in Baylor will be repaid a thousaand fold through the young women 
that she each year sends back to you. 

STUDENT LEAGUE 

The Student League of Baylor College was organized by Dean 
W. M. W. Splawn in 1918. Miss Ruth Splawn was the first President 
and Miss Eugenia Kidd, Vice-President. Miss Splawn gave an interest- 
ing program in June, 1919. Prom the account of the organization of 
the Student League in the United Statements in May, 1918, we have 
the following extract: 

The Baylor College League has been completely organized, and 
plans are on foot to make this organization really worth while. On 
last Thursday morning at chapel the various classes of college and 
academy departments unanimously became members of said league, 
thereby pledging their loyalty to the support of the organization. We 
girls are determined to make our league grow; we pledge ourselves 
to Us support, and when our secretary writes for the dues, we shall re- 
spond promptly, cheerfully, and gladly. The day for a bigger and 
better Baylor is fast approaching; it is our glorious privilege to assist 
in hastening the day. 

One hundred and thirty-seven 



The five Terry sisters, who have all been to Baylor and who are 
now married and living in different parts of South Texas, offered a 
premium for the best banner design for the Student League. 

OUR STUDENT LEAGUE BANNER 

By Student Secretary, Miss Ola Beaty. 

Flags and banners symbolize the noble aspirations and the glori- 
ous achievements of the human race. They epitomize the romance of 
history — they incarnate the chivalry of the ages. 

In the work of the Student League to make Baylor what it should 
be, each member needs an emblem of leadership to cheer, to encourage-, 
and to arouse enthusiasm. Can you not see yourself one of an army 
or thousands struggling and, sacrificing under a common banner for 
your Alma Mater? What a privilege! What an inspiration to work 
with a legion like that! I appeal to each and every one of you to love, 
cherish and uphold the flag of your native land; then you will make for 
this institution as great a place among the colleges of the world as our 
nation holds today among the powers of the earth. We should never be 
satisfied with anything else. 

The five flags that inspired the five conquering armies are today 
draped in the hall where the peace congress assembles. These, we 
shall always respect and die for, if necessary. Last, but not least, is 
the world our field, which we must strive to save from sin and igno- 
rance. Hard and cold indeed, it seems to me, would be the heart that 
could not respond and love a banner that embraces all these ideals. 

The banners presented by Miss Sue Cachran and Mrs. W. B. Mo- 
larity were combined and we have "An Endowed Baylor Endows the 
World" in a banner circling the world. 




Closely connected with the Student League, our College boasts 
of Baylor clubs composed of former students who are doing a great and 
good work for the welfare of their Alma Mater, and doing their bit in 
our plans for a bigger and better Baylor. 

NANNIE DAVID PRAYER CIRCLE 

On July 4, 1920, the Nannie David Prayer Circle was organized 
to pray and work for all the Baylor Missionaries who have gone to 
the foreign fields, those who are now on their way, and those who will 
go in the future years. Its purpose is also to pray earnestly that God 
will give Baylor seventy-five missionaries during the next five years, — 
as a result of the seventy-five million campaign. 



One hundred and thirty-eight 




Helen Bagby 




Pearl Tucker 




CLUBS OF STUDENT LEAGUES. 

In our Jubilee year six clubs were organized, 
namely: Ministers' Daughters Club, Thrift Club, 
Orphans' Club, Teachers' Daughters Club, Daugh- 
ters of Old Baylor Girls Club, and Foreign Club. 

The Ministers' Daughters Club meets the first 
Tuesday in each month, at twelve thirty, and its aim 
is to raise a scholarship each year to be used by 
one of its members in pursuing her musical studies. 

The Thrift Club meets every first Thursday 
morning in each month, after chapel. It has for its 
aim the raising of one hundred doll&rs annually, for 
four years, for the endowment. 

The Teachers' Daughters Club meets every 
second Tuesday in each month, after chapel. Its 
purpose is to raise a fund to be used for the further 
advancement of one of its members who is preparing 
to be a teacher. 

Evelyn Dawson is President of the Orphans Club. 
There are six Orphan Home representatives in this 
club, besides many who are beyond age. Miss Daw- 
son graduates here this year, and is one of the 
Freshman Scholarship holders. 

The Daughters of Old Baylor Girls Club meets 
the first Wednesday in each month, and its finan- 
cial goal is to raise a fund to publish the writings 
of Bajdor girls. 

Helen Bagby is a member of four of these six 
clubs. 

CHORAL CLUB 

The Choral Club consists of thirty-two members and meets on 
Tuesdays and Fridays. Its aim is to develop individual and chorus 
talent; to give inspiring and interesting entertainments; and to put 
Baylor College before the public in a musical light. 

CLASSICAL CLUB 

Consists of all advanced Latin and Greek students, and meets 
every first and third Saturday evenings. The aim is to renew and 
revive an interest in classical art and literature. 

The Spanish Club meets at seven-thirty every Monday evening, 
and is composed of twenty-five members and has for its purpose the 
training of its members to speak better Spanish. 

The French Club has twenty-five members and meets on the 
second and fourth Wednesday afternoons from five to six; its purpose 
is to enable its members to speak better French. 

The Education Club has ftfty members and meets the first Mon- 
day evening at seven-fifteen, its object is to train its members 
to become efficient teachers. 



Mary Crain 




Evelyn Dawson 



Page One Hundred and thirty-nine 



THE THREE ARTS CLUB 

Is an organization representing the department of Fine Arts in 
Baylor College. All those taking one or more of the Fine Arts are 
eligible. The aim of the club is to raise the individual ideals of its 
members concerning all that is truly artistic in music, painting, and 
expression, and to further the interests of the Fine Arts as a whole 
in college. At least one artist of note is brought to Baylor each year 
under the auspices of this club. 



Other Organizations 



The motto of the U. D. C. is "Equal to adversity, superior to pros 
perity." 

The motto of the Nannie David Prayer Circle is "In Honor Pre- 
ferring One Another." The motto of Texas Federation is, "In Small 
Things Liberty, in Large Things Unity, in All Things Charity." The 
blending of the lights of patriotism, of religion, and of education aro 
perfect in these three organizations. 

Baylor College has many strong religious organizations. The 
Y. W. A.'s, the G. A.'s and B. Y. P. U.'s. Much has been written 
about these religious activities in other chapters. 



Appeal for Endowment 

Through the combined efforts of all our clubs and Student League, 
we feel that our goal for the next decade, which is one million dollars ; 
will certainly be reached. Baylor College is the only Baptist Woman's 
College in the Southwest and yet it has no endowment. Without en- 
dowment no school can do its best work. We are enlarging so rapidly 
that we can expect nothing more than new buildings from the usual 
denominational channels. 

As builders for the future, and for eternity, we must awaken to 
our wonderful opportunity and responsibility to open the doors of 
Baylor College to those who could not otherwise enter. 

1. Will you help by sending the present address of former stu- 
dents and names of prospective Baylor College students? 

2. Will you send a cash gift to the Student League for endow- 
ment? 

3. Will you insure your life for Baylor College Endowment, or — 
get one of your friends to insure his life, for Baylor College Endow- 
ment? 

This will influence others to insure their lives for their favorite 
college and it will develop faith, hope, patience and loyalty. 

It will demonstrate the great results from co-operation in secur- 
ing small gifts. 

It demonstrates the accumulative power of an ideal, and proves 
the fact that all we secure in money, increases in amount from a three- 
fold standpoint. It gives us some money all the time; it gives us a 
larger amount later on; it develops new givers. 

All Endowment money will go into the College treasury and the 
President and Trustees will disburse it in the way that will bring 
greatest good to the largest number of students. 

Every Baylor girl who reads this appeal is asked to subscribe io 
one of the amounts below for endowment: 

$100.00 a year for 10 years. 

$ 50.00 a year for 10 years. 

$ 25.00 a year for 10 years. 

$ 10.00 a year for 10 years. 



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LELAND STANFORD UNIVERSITY 

"At one time we have the pathetic figure of a good woman going 
to the Queen's Jubilee in London with all her own possessions, half a 
million dollars worth of jewels, in a suit-case carried in her hand. 
She hoped to sell these to advantage when all the world was gathered 
in London. But the market was not good, and three-fourths of them 
she brought back to California again. 

When the great financial strain had passed still there were many 
difficulties to be overcome. The struggle and hardships through which 
this great woman passed in trying to obtain possession of funds to 
relieve the University are most heroic. 

In the history of this school as in all other similar institutions 
we realize that not only money is necessary, but the hearts of Gods 
chosen men and women who in consecration to the loftiest ideals of 
duty pour out their life blood for the advancement and promotion of 
education. 

Mrs Stanford died suddenly at Honolulu on February 28, 1905. 
In accordance with her written wish, her jewels were sold and a funa 
known as the "Jewel Fund," five hundred thousand *?*™W™WQ) 
was established for the maintenance of a library and the pui chase of 
books and other publications. 

President Jordan quotes from several of Mrs. Stanford's letters 
how sacred a trust she considered the university to be. From tnese 
extracts are culled: 

Every dollar I can rightfully call mine is sacredly laid on the 
altar of my love for the university, and thus it shall ever be. - - -- 
I am so poor myself that I cannot this year give to any charity; not 

even do I give this festive season to any of my family i 

am only anxious to furnish you the fund required to pay the needs. 

I could live on bread and water to do this I could 

lay down my life for the university. Not for any pride in its perpetuat- 
ing the names of our dear son and ourselves, its founders, but for 
the sincere hope I cherish in its sending forth to the world grand men 
and women who will aid in developing the best there is to be found in 
human nature." 

When I was a child I remember hearing Dr. John Hill Luther 
often say that the widows and old maids of New England were afraid 
to die without willing something to Harvard and Yale and Brown 
Universities. May our Baylor College girls begin to cherish the same 
holy fear. Men are so often overwhelmed with business affairs, they 
leave the accumulation of a long lifetime in a way to hinder rather 
than bless humanity. This is unpardonable, for women, who of all 
people, should feel the greatest cause for gratitude to Christ, whose 
redeeming love has lifted them from lives of slavery and degradation. 
Notwithstanding the fact, that we are now rejoicing over our three 
Jubilee buildings, we could be so much more jubilant if we had an 
adequate Library Building. Will not someone give us a Memorial 
.library? 



Page One Hundred and forty-one 



Celebrations, Special Days and Dates 

We have had four historic celebrations besides those coming at a 
stated time; in 18 95 the Golden Jubilee, in 1911 the Silver Celebration 
of our twenty-five years at Belton, in 1917 the Silver Celebration of 
the Cottage Home. Each of these occasions have special mention 
elsewhere. Crowning all celebrations is the Diamond Jubilee of this 
year 1920. 

February 1, 18 4 5, Baylor was chartered. This is a day always cele- 
brated in our school. As Baylor College received her charter from the 
Republic of Texas on February 1, 1845, it is fitting that all who come 
and go from her walls should know her glorious history. To realize 
that the opportunities she offers today have been made possible 
through the heroic efforts of her founders, is to make one more 
loyal and appreciative. 

All members are invited to meet and consider matters of interest 
to the Alumnae Association, and to make pledges for the new year. 
From those who cannot attend, it is pleasant to receive written com- 
munications. At these meetings, committees are appointed, officers 
elected, and applications for membership from the different depart- 
ments received and acted upon. While Charter Day is important, it 
does not take the place of the Alumnae re-union at Commencement. 
Regular meetings of the Alumnae are on Thanksgiving, February first, 
and at the Annual Commencement. 

CHARTER DAY, 1900 

Each year a speaker is chosen to deliver an address to the Alum- 
nae. Happily our own Rev. E. G. Townsend had been chosen to speak 
on this occasion. His thoughts concerning culture were beautiful and 
full of truth. As the words of music fell from his lips we felt they 
were but the echoes of a loving, cultured soul. The following are bin 
touches of the subject as presented by him: 

Culture deals with the whole man; it polishes, trains, refines. 
Man by it can see the most delicate vibrations of truth. It is opposed 
to dullness. 

One who lives by rule may forget, but a truly cultured person 
not so. Culture does not go to extremes, sees beauty in everything, 
thinks vigorously, yet charitably. Its mission is to teach us how to 
think. Though an angel come and fill the mind with wondrous 
thoughts, without culture, all is lost. True, culture is not in seeming 
to have, but in having. It is culture that purges from the soul, the 
coarse. There must be moral culture — kindness, gentleness and sym- 
pathy. Culture betters not in worldly advantages, but in true nobility 
of soul. As a Woman's College stands as an exponent of culture, thobe 
who love Baylor can do no more for her than by going out, culture! 
in mind, body and soul. Wherever you go, that stands as what is real, 
solid, genuine adornment, which will bring pleasure and of which 
you will never be ashamed. 

1906 — April 2 2nd, corner-stone laid for Wilson Administration 
Building; just twenty years after the first building was erected. 



Page One Hundred and forty-two 



Dedication of Ely-Pepper Hall 

From the meeting of the Baptist General Convention of Texas 
at Waco, November 12th, 1906, a special train was chartered to 
convey to Belton the speakers and friends who were invited to attend 
the dedicatory exercises of the Cottage Home at Baylor College. 
Some of the guests were Drs. L. R. Scarborough, Henry Alfred Por- 
ter, Congressman W. D. Upshaw (then our "Earnest Willie"), Drs 
Jeff D. Ray, J. M. Dawson, Mr. George W. Carroll, and our great Dr. 
R. C. Buckner, who delivered the memorial dedicatory address. The 
large number of guests were given a banquet. Both the dining room 
at Luther Hall and at the Cottage Home were filled to overflowing 
with appreciative friends from all over Texas and other states. 



4 
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Ely-Pepper Hall 



Homecoming Celebrations 

In January, 1908, Mrs. Rachel Barry Stewart of the class of 1858, 
requested the faculty of Baylor College to invite all the ex-students 
to visit the College, that they might note the improvements that had 
been made, and this led to our Homecoming Celebrations. 

The first Homecoming, held April 26, 27 and 28, 1909, was an 
event to be remembered. The idea of this delightful reunion was 
made practical when the Administration Building was finished; but 
it was too late in the term to have it then, and so Homecoming was 
celebrated the next year. It is now established for every fourth year. 



Page One Hundred and forty-three 




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THESE SENIORS TOOK PxlRT IN FIRST HOME COMING. 

The time seemed especially fitted for a Homecoming. Spring 
had come back from her visit to the regions of frost and snow, 
not timidly and tentatively as she does in February and March when 
winter still seems loath to yield his sway and often grimly undoes* 
the work of spring, but with the joyousness of full-grown leaves and 
fields of flowers. The fifty acres of our campus were clothed in 
Easter freshness; the fields were fragrant with the odor of the blue- 
bonnet; wild verbena showed everywhere its native lavender, which 
perhaps college culture might deepen into Baylor's own purple; the 
Mexican primroses brightened the grass with their delicate rose cups, 
and along the creek, so dear to the heart of every Baylor girl, the 
maidenhair ferns had draped all the limestone bluffs with their grace- 
ful sprays. All nature's beauty and joyousness seemed concentrated 
to welcome Baylor's daughters. 

Many substantial improvements were noted by the guests. The 
drives, cement walk, the wall, the iron gates, the stone seats, and 
fountain on the campus. The delightful home of the President, the 
handsome and commodious Cottage Home Buildings and lastly, th3 
Wilson Administration Building which lifts its stately columns a 
little to the northeast of the central building. Here you will find 
the President's office, the business offices, elegant recitation rooms 
and the chapel under whose beautiful stained glass dome, twelve 
hundred people may be seated. 

There were heard many inspiring words of wisdom from some 
of our educational leaders, Dr. Wilson, Mrs. Townsend, and others. 



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1910 — Charter Day. The Alumnae Association of Baylor Col- 
lege has inaugurated a custom of receiving each year the senior class 
of the College with a very interesting public ceremony. On Wednes- 
day this event occurred in the Alma Reeves Chapel. Miss Martha C. 
Dowell, President of the association, welcomed the members, who, in 
caps and gowns, were seated upon the stage. Following are the re- 
marks of Miss Dowell, the Alumnae President, in addressing the class 
of 1910: 

"It is with pleasure and pride that I give you welcome, class of 
1910, into the ranks of the Alumnae Association. We trust that this 
will be the dearest memory of your senior year, for on this day you are 
received into the ranks of your older sisters, — a noble company oil 
more than six hundred, loyal and true. From this day you are cor- 
dially invited to the regular meetings of the Alumnae Association." 

1911 — September 13, a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniver- 
sary of the opening of Baylor at Belton was held at the College. 
Baylor University was also removed from Independence about the 
same time, and her Alumni were invited to have a large part in the 
program for that day — the finest program that had been given at the 
College. All old students and friends were heartily welcomed. 



JUDSON CENTENNIAL 

February 19, 1912, a centennial celebration of the sailing for 
India of Anne Hazeltine Judson and her husband, was held in the 
Alma Reeves Chapel. A greeting from Adoniram Judson's son, Ed- 
ward Judson, pastor of the Judson Memorial Church of New York, 
contains the following: "I have long known Baylor, not only as a 
home of culture, but as a hallowed center of Christian influence. I 
am deeply affected to learn that you are to celebrate the centennial 
of Mrs. Anne Hazeltine Judson in the College Chapel on February 19 r 
the date of her sailing for India, thus fulfilling the scripture assur- 
ance: 'The Righteous shall be kept in everlasting remembrance.' 

"I hope this occasion will glow with holy interest and that the 
example of that heroic and saintly woman may prove an inspiring 
force in the lives of the students of Baylor." 

It added much to the interest of the occasion that Dr. S. J. Porter, 
who was for years field secretary of the Southern Baptist Foreign 
Mission Board, and Dr. Henry C. Mabie, an ex-secretary of the Mis- 
sion Board of the Northern Baptists, consented to be on our program 



SECOND HOMECOMING 

This class of 1912 had several celebrations during their senior 
year. It was the first class to receive permanent state certificates. It 
completed the twenty-five years at Belton. Miss Sue Cochran pre- 
sented the College with the complete history of Baylor at Belton. Dr. 
John Crumpton Hardy gave his inaugural address as president of the 
College to this class and it was the celebration of the Second Home- 
coming. 

Elli Ault and Elli Whitfield Strickland were 
Dr. Frazier's members of this class. Their mothers graduated 
picture will be together twenty-seven years before. 

found in part . 

II with the 

faculty. N O SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR MRS. TOWNSEND AND 

words can ex- DR. FRAZIER 

press our deep 

gratitude for 1919 — In this year, a celebration was given in 

his many Baylor College for the completion of Mrs. Town- 
years of pains- send's term of forty years as teacher. A few days 
taking devot- after the program honoring Mrs. Townsencl, a simi- 
ed Christian lar service was held for Dr. Frazier, who has so 

service. faithfully and patiently listened to the complaints 

of Baylor College girls for more than twenty-five 

years. 

Page One Hundred and forty-six 



Special Days 



17 9 7 — The birthday of Mary Lyon, February 28. 

1781 — The birthday of Ann Hazeltine Judson, December 22. 

1820 — The birthday of Florence Nightingale, May 12. 
1920 — September 4, celebration of the passage of Woman's Suff- 
rage throughout the United States. 

October 12, discovery of America and the birthday of one of 
our first donors, Mr. William Reeves. 

July 4. 

Declaration of Independence of American Colonies, 177 5. 

Last Congress of Texas Republic met, 1845. 

Capital settled at Austin, 18 45. 

The organization of Nannie David Prayer Circle, 1920. 

March 2 

1793 — Birthday of General Sam Houston. 

1836 — Texas declared her independence from Mexico. 

1837 — United States acknowledged the independence of 
Texas Republic. 

March 2, 190 4, celebration of the laying of the corner-stone 
of Ely Pepper Hall. 

April 21 

1836 — Battle of San Jacinto. 

187 8 — iRoyall Academia Society organized. 

1886 — Laying of corner-stone of Luther Hall. 

1907 — Laying of corner-stone of Wilson Building. (21 came on 
Sunday, but the celebration was held the day after.) 

February 22 is the anniversary of the organization of the His- 
torical Society. 

Presenting the most informing and inspiring programs, embrac- 
ing the complete Denominational organized work, the birthdays of 
these women are celebrated accordingly: 

February 2 8, Special Education Day — Mary Lyon. 

December 22, Foreign Mission Day — Ann Hazelton Judson. 

May 12, Hospital Work — Florence Nightengale. 

In the section "Memorable Dates" many other special days are 
mentioned, keeping ever in view the purpose of bringing to mind 
certain great religious, civic, patriotic, and literary events, and mem- 
orable occasions. 

SPECIAL DAYS IN ATHLETICS 

Tennis clubs are organized and also hiking clubs. The plan of 
the hiking club is to have a sergeant for each club. The clubs go on 
hikes special days each week, increasing the length each time. 

There are various activities of special interest during the year. 
We have the championship games in basket ball. First Spring term 
special days, we have the tennis tournament and swimming contest. 
In April we have field day. In May we have a May Day festival and 
the King Cup contest. 

THIRD HOMECOMING 

The four preceding classes combined in making the quadrennial 
which took the place of four annuals. The four succeeding classes 
nrovided each a Freshman Scholarship. The influence of this class 
stimulated all the classes that followed to be loyal, and broad, and 
enterprising. We see the result of the influence of this class in our 
glorious celebration of the fourth Homecoming, June, 192 0. 

SILVER CELEBRATION 

1917, on Thanksgiving, the silver celebration of the Cottage 
Home was commemorated. Mesdames J. M. Dawson and Virginia 
Westbrook were the speakers of the occasion. 



Page One Hundred and forty-seven 



ARMISTICE DAY AT BAYLOR 

1918 — November 11, "Armistice Day," which marked the close 
of the "World War," was celebrated. It is interesting to remember 
that the eleventh book, eleventh chapter, and eleventh verse of the 
Eibie corresponds to the eleventh month, eleventh day and eleventh 
hour on which the Armistice was signed. 1st King, 11:11, "Where- 
fore the Lord said unto Solomon, For as much as this is done of thee, 
and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statute which I have com- 
manded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee." 

"God has favored us by allowing us to live at this cross-road 
of history," and surely this is true. At this time when nations and 
continents are being remade and fashioned for all future years, at a 
time when every home is shadowed by the gigantic catastrophe of a 
suffering, weeping world there is not a man, woman nor child that 
does not feel the stress and hear the agonizing cries. We are glad 
to celebrate the close of such a war. 

CENTENIAL CELEBRATION OF FLORENCE NIGTINGALE. 

Three departments of work appeal with rare emphasis to Baylor 
girls. That they may be impressed on all students, we have special 
programmes celebrating the birthdays of these pioneer women. 

Florence Nightingale was born May 12, 1820. The one hundredth 
anniversary of her birth attracted unusual attention and interest this 
Jubilee Year, because our own Nannie Bland David was ready to begin 
her work in Africa. 

We are glad to say that many of Baylor's daughters are prepar- 
ing for special work in the medical world. The life of Grace McBridt. 
has greatly influenced others. 

Josephine Kaye is studying medicine at Baylor Medical College' 
for the purpose of being a foreign Medical Missionary. 

BAYLOR'S SEVENTY.FIFTH BIRTHDAY 

February 1, 1920, the Student League and Alumnae Association 
celebrated the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of Charter Day. The pic- 
tures of the Diamond Jubilee Class are found in part two, and part 
three devotes a special chapter to the celebration of the Jubilee Year. 
This book is presented to the college by the Student League and 
Alumnae Association for their Diamond Jubilee gift. 

The Diamond Jubilee Celebration was held in June, 1920. 

A great celebration was held in June in connection with the fourCi 
homecoming. 

PASSAGE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT CELEBRATED. 

1920, September 4, Baylor College girls celebrated the passage, 
by congress, of the Suffrage Amendment. At this celebration the pro- 
phecy of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, which was made at the beginning of 
the twentieth century, was read: "All the states in the Union will 
grant woman suffrage within the next twenty-five years. Less than 
ten years afterward, Congress will grant Woman Suffrage. Within 
fifty years, the United States will have a woman president." 

(Foot Note — The history of woman's fight for the universal ballot 
was given in full, and several other items of valuable information 
added interest to the instructive and inspiring programme.) 



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GENERAL DATES. 

In 1675 the free schools of America began. 

March 2, 1793, General Sam Houston was born. The same day 
of the month 183 6, the Texas Republic was born. 

In 1837 Mary Lyon's school for the Christian Education of young 
women began. 

187 8, amendment for women's suffrage was introduced in the 
United States Senate by Senator Sargent of California. 

1894, Colorado, Utah and Idaho gave their women full suf- 
frage. 

In 1897 Texas Federation of Women Clubs was organized. 

in 18 9 9 when the Texas Federation was twelve years old, it was 
admitted to the' General Federation of Women's Clubs. 

1910 — Women of State of Washinngton receive franchise. 

1912 — California enfranchises women. 

1912 — Kansas, Arizona and Oregon join equal suffrage states. 

1914 — Full suffrage granted women of Nevada and Montana. 

1917 — New York enfranchises women. 

1918 — Women of Oklahoma and South Dakota enfranchised. 
Suffrage amendment finally passed by congress. 

1919 — Texas Legislature ratified the Federal Amendment at a 
special session. 

1920 — The amendment ratified by two-thirds majority of the 
states. 

For eighty years we have our most Memorable Dates every twenty 
years from 18 46-192 6. 

1846 — May 18, Baylor opened at Independence. 

1S6 6- —September 22, the Woman's Department severed from Bay- 
lor University. 

18 86 — September 13, Baylor College opened at Belton. 

19 06 — November 12, Ely-Pepper Hall dedicated. 

1926 — What? — One million Endowment and Permanent Library 
Building! ! 

FIRSTS. 

Moravians were the first to inaugurate the modern system of 
vernacular schools among the Baptist. 

The first public free school in America was founded by a Baptist 
Preacher, Dr. John Clark, of Rhode Island. 

First Baylor College girl to go to Hawaii was 
Mary Mitchell Bell. 

"See America First in Hawaii. This is the 
real paradise of the Pacific." Our three Baylor girls 
now in Hawaii have great opportunities. 

George Rosborough was the first leader in athe- 
letics in Baylor College about 1910. 

Mrs. E. Homer Tirey was the first woman to 
make a special personal canvass of Central South 
Mr. George District for Christian Education. 

Rosborough . n . . 

18 4 8, first Woman's Rights Convention held m 
Seneca Falls, New York, at the call of Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth 
Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony rises as leader in the movement tot 
political freedom. 

1851 — Baylor College was first established in separate buildings. 
The first woman to graduate from Baylor College was Mrs. 
Mary D. Kavanaugh Pressler, who finished in 1855. 

1865 — Baylor College diplomas were given for the first and 
only time without public exercises. 

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186 9 — Wyoming first state to give women full suffrage. 

1871 — Baylor University's first president becomes president of 
Baylor College. 

1873 — Susan B. Anthony makes first draft of woman suffrage 
amendment to the constitution. 

The first Baylor College girl to study medicine was Miss Francis 
Uatchett of class of 18 79. 

1880 — Annie Luther, first Baylor College missionary appointed. 

1886 — The first building at Belton was erected. First wing was 
added to the north end of Luther Hall, 1888. 

Professor G. H. Rowe was the first to make the music department 
separate in graduating students in music, 1887. 

In 18 9 2, the first little cottage was built, which afterwards be- 
came the Cottage Home. 

The first large gift to Baylor College, after J. 
H. Pepper's ten thousand dollars to Cottage Home in 
1904 was ten thousand dollars by Mr. William 
Reeves, 1907. 

1907, Oct. 24, First exercise held by the school 
in Alma Reeves Chapel. 

Bertha Mills Pettigrew was the first Baylor girl 
to be state organizer for the Texas Baptist women, 
1907. 

1909 — First Home Coming. 

Mary D. McGee McGregor was the first to 
make a special gift to Baylor College Endowment 
She gave $250.00 in liberty bonds, 1917. 

FIRST GIFTS TO THE COTTAGE HOME. 

The first cottage was built with the carload of 
lumber given by Mrs. Florence King Fall and Mr. 
George W. Carroll, 1892. 

The first contribution of books to Cottage Home 
was made by Mrs. Lillie Thomas Pepper, 18 93. 

The first Cottage Home Scholarship was given 
by Reverend Sid Williams, 1893. 

The first box of groceries was given by Mrs. Vir- 
ginia Westbrook, 1894. 

The first Literary Cottage Home graduate was 
Nannie Appling Nickols, 18 95. 

The first one hundred dollars in cash was given 
by Mrs. Lou F. White, 1896. 

The first publicity given in the Baptist Standard 
and the first leaflet written about the Cottage Home 
was by Hollie Harper Townsend. 

The first girl to solicit funds for the Cottag? 
Home was Mrs. Amy Bentley Bell, 1899. 

The first large gift to Cottage Home was ten 
thousand dollars by Mr. J. H. Pepper, 1904. 



Mi\ George 
Carroll 




Mrs. Lou F. White 




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Bertha Mills 
Pettigrew 



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Personalities 




Mrs, Eliza 
Killough Faires 



MRS. ELLI MOORE TOWNSEND. 

By Mrs. Eliza Faiies, a Cousin of Mrs. Townsend. 

Mrs. Elli Moore Townsend, a noble woman of 
the Master's rarest type, is a native of Payette 
bounty, Texas. She is a daughter of William Bow- 
en Moore and granddaughter of John H. and 
and Eliza Cummins Moore. Colonel Moore was 
Commander - in - chief of Texas forces at the bat- 
tle of Gonzales, the Lexington of Texas Independ- 
ence. Mrs. Townsend first saw the light when the 
sunny South was in the throes of a most terrible 
war, and imbibed the spirit of a true soldier. 

In her young life, she embraced religion, putting on the full ar- 
mor of God, and she has been in the battle front these many years. 
Through her intellectual powers, her remarkable memory, and her 
ciligent application in the school of Baylor, as well as her travel in for- 
eign countries, she has attained a height most commendable. For 
her work as originator and founder of the Baylor Cottage Home, and 
for scores of lesser charities, many will rise up and call her blessed. 

MRS. ANNA HAMMANN HEISIU. 

She with her brother came as a young girl to 
Baylor at Independence from their home in Ger- 
many. In a most remarkable way, she adapted her- 
self to Texas customs. She learned English so per- 
fectly that she would never be considered one of 
foreign birth. After a few years she and her broth- 
er became teachers in Baylor College. In 188S 
they visited their home in Germany and took with 
them another Baylor Teacher. Mention should be 
made of Dr. Theodore Heisig, who was also a teach- 
er in Baylor College at Independence. He has been 
a most generous contributor to the Baylor College loan fund, and never 
fails to respond to an appeal fcr Christian Education. 

PAULO RORACIO TOOMS. 

2^, A beautiful Christian character came to Baylor 

College from Old Mexico and while in school the 
Lord opened the way for her to enter the Baptist 
Missionary Training School in Chicago. From there 
she went as a missionary to work in Montemouls, 
Mexico, where she worked for eight years. After 
her marriage to Reverend R. W. Tooms, the two 
worked in different parts of Mexico until bis death. 
For over a quarter of a century, Mrs. Tooms has fol- 
lowed where her Savior has led her. At present she 
is helping her son who is pastor of a Baptist Church 

in Yuma, Arizona. She was the second Baylor College student to go 

as a foreign missionary. 




Mrs. Anna 
Hammann Heisig' 




Mrs. Paulo 
Baracio Toonu 



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Miss Nannie David 



NANNIE DAVID. 

Miss Nannie David was converted at the age of 
nine and united with the Fifteenth Avenue Baptist 
Church, Meridian, Mississippi. She is now a mem- 
ber of the First Baptist Church, of Houston, Texas. 
She has had varied experience in church work and 
has been successful in her work for the Lord. 

In 1910, she graduated at Baylor College, and 
studied one year in Baylor University, Waco. She 
graduated in 1919, from the Houston Baptist Sani- 
tarium, with the R. N. degree, and since that time 
has been nursing. She was appointed by the Board on December 16, 
1919, and assigned to service as a trained nurse in Oyo, Africa. She 
sailed for her field on the Steamship Mobile, which left New York on 
August 25, 1920. 

On July 4, 1920, the Nannie David Prayer Meeting was organized 
to pray and work for all the Baylor missionaries who have gone to 
the foreign fields, those who are on their way, and those who will go 
in the future years; and to pray earnestly that God will give Baylor 
seventy-five missionaries during the next five years, as a result of 
the Seventy-five Million Campaign. 

BAYLOR GIRLS IN HAWAII. 

In July, 1920, three Baylor girls, Misses Amy and Annie Wade, 
ana Lura Jones left for Hawaii, where they are engaged in 
teaching. This makes five Baylor girls who have taken up educa- 
tional work in that country. 

Not only are we sending teachers to the islands of the sea, but 
drawing students from them also. Miss Jennie Uluihi, who has been 
a student of Baylor for the past two years, is the daughter of Judge 
Jesse Uluihi, associate judge of the United States Court in Honolulu. 
Judge Uluihi was one of Hawaii's thirteen representatives at the 
recent Democratic Convention held at San Francisco, in 1920, and 
while in this country paid a special visit to Baylor. Miss Uluihi plans 
to continue her course at Baylor until she takes her literary degree. 

MRS. HARRIET N. LEARY. 

(From a San Antonio Paper.) 
Mrs. Harriett N. Leary has been appointed Deputy Labor Com- 
missioner and Inspector of the woman's division of the State Labor 
Department. As head of the Associated Charities of this city and 
member of the San Antonio Board of Education, Mrs. Leary has 
gained distinction in welfare and educational work. Mrs. Leary has 
arranged for the education of many homeless girls in Baylor College. 

BAYLOR AND OUR GOVERNORS. 

The name of Baylor has been connected with the family of each 
of our last three governors. 

Mrs. James E. Ferguson, wife of ex-Governor Ferguson, was a 
Baylor College graduate, and her daughter is now a student here. 

Mrs. Hobby, mother of W. P. Hobby, our present executive, was 
also a student at Baylor. She did a great work in rearing a son who 
was chosen to become the chief magistrate of his commonwealth. 

Hon. Patt Neff, whose nomination on the Democratic ticket as- 
sures his election as governor, is a Baylor University graduate. He 
has been for several years a trustee of that institution, and has always 
manifested great love and loyalty for his Alma Mater. 

MR. AND MRS. WESLEY SMITH. 

A beautiful country home, near Lampasas, opens its doors at all 
times to Baylor College girls who have no home in which to spend 
their Christmas or summer vacations. It is a great service that is 
thus rendered by Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Smith. Any student who 
needs a change or rest during the session receives a warm welcome in 



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this home for any length of time. Many girls are there each summer, 
and neighboring families also share in this gracious home-making 
enterprise during the summer months. 

Mr. and Mrs. Smith have no children of their 
own, but in this, and ether ways, they are helping 
and blessing the children of others. 

MISS EVELYN CAMPBELL. 
The Baylor girls have been richly blessed by 
the coming of Miss Evelyn Campbell to Baylor. She 
proved herself a capable dean of women. By her 
strong leadership in the Y. W. A. and her work in 
mission study many of the girls have been led to 
see the spirit of service and are ready to launch out 

Anita Court 

v. v. a. Worke • for special work. 





Dr. W. A. Wilson 



MRS. MARGARET SAVAGE LOWE— 1898. 

The following is an extract from a private letter 
which we ha\e permission from the writer to pub- 
lish. The letter is opportune as an incidental sida 
light to our college life and work. The writer, Mar- 
garet Savage, was a student under President W. A. 
Wilson in Lexington, Missouri, and accompanying 
him to Belton, graduated from Baylor College in 
18 97. Since then she has been happily married to 
Reverend John W. Lowe, one of Missouri's most 
promising young preachers. They are just now 
equipping themselves with thorough medical train- 
ing in Louisville, preparatory to their chosen life-work as mis- 
sionaries to China. The letter is as follows: "We began the study of 
medicine the first of October; I entered the school of homeopathy, 
which is the only medical school in the city open to ladies. Mr. Lowe 
attended lectures at the Louisville school until the first of January, 
.vhen he entered the Kentucky School of Medicine. Our house is not 
going to be divided, for we are going to combine the good of 
both alapathy and homeopathy. We are anxious to get a good knowl- 
edge of medicine while waiting for the board to secure means to send 
us to China. We think now we shall be sent a year from next fall." 
She has been twenty years in China. 

Four other Baylor College women are now missionaries in China. 
We must have 75 in the next twenty years. 

MRS. MARTHA NASH. 

Among the loyal workers of Baylor, there is 
none greater than Mrs. Martha Nash. In the ca- 
pacity of lady principal, she served well. There 
are few who could compare with Mrs. Nash as to 
poise and dignified hearing. She not only looked 
after the girls, but was also interested in every col- 
lege activity. 

As a field representative for Baylor, she did a 
wonderful work. More girls have been sent to Bay- 
lor through her work than that of any other school 
We cannot overestimate the value of Mrs. Nash or 





Mrs. Martha Nas 



representative. 

of her faithful work 



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MRS. M. V. SMITH. 

Mrs. Smith was for more than twenty-seven 
years president of the Missionary Society of the Bel- 
ton Baptist Church. Her efficient, earnest conse- 
crated leadership cannot be estimated in words, 
written or spoken. 

REVEREND W. R. McGARITY. 

Reverend W. B. McGarity and wife, Mrs. Mc- 

Garity, emimnet friends of Baylor College, can 

Mrs. m. v. Smitii never be forgotten. Brother McGarity was, for five 

years, beloved pastor of the Belton Baptist church. 

Since his death, Mrs. McGarity has served as Registrar of Baylor, and 

she is also an enthusiastic promoter of many students activities. 



MISS AMY RENTLEY. 

Mrs. Hollie Harper Townsend found this young 
lady teaching school in East Texas, and prevailed on 
her to enter Baylor College, where afterward, she 
and her two sisters graduated. 

Miss Bentley is now a most useful pastor's wife, 
Mrs. R. E. Bell. 



MISS MILDRED MIHILLS. 

(Taken from Woman's Who's Who in America.) 

"Mildred Mihills, 2 818 Austin, St., Houston, 
Texas, teacher, born in Houston, Texas, February 
27, 1886, daughter of Wilber D. and Carrie Mihills, 
educated at Houston High School; Baylor College, 
B. L. ; Post-graduate School of Expression, class 
poet, president Historical Literary Society, winner 
of two medals, of Skinner scholarship in expression; 
Vassar one year, S. H. Clark Dramatic School, Chau- 
tauqua, N. Y.; University of Texas, A. B.; charter 
member and critic Pierian Literary Society; award- 
ed Helen Day Gould Scholarship in School of Pedagogy, N. Y. Uni- 
versity; in Europe, 1910. Delegate to International Conference, 
Brussels. Teacher of physical culture, Baylor College; of English in 
Houston Heights High School. Interested in religious and philan- 
thropic activities. Member of Alumnae Association of Baylor College 
and University of Texas, Y. W. C. A., Baptist Young People's Union, 
D. A. R., National Art Society, Student Volunteers. Recreations: 
Tennis, apparatus work, Delsarte. Member College Woman's Club. 
Favors woman suffrage." 

She is now, 1920, taking her Ph. D. in University of California. 
Some day we expect her name to be added to the American Hall of 
Fame. 




Miss Mildred Mihills 



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Miss Bthelyn Morgan 



MISS ETHELYN MORGAN. 

Miss 1 Ethelyn Morgan, a graduate in voice, 
shortly after arriving in New York for the purpose 
of study, was engaged at a Jewish Synagogue to 
take the place of a noted New York singer. She 
was so successful, although having to sing in He- 
brew, that she received a call to the Church of Pil- 
grims in Brooklyn, at a larger salary and less work. 
Mr. Charles Harrison, the well known American 
tenor, is the tenor solist at the same church. Miss 
Morgan has appeared as solist at numerous places, 
including Washington, D. C, the Rivoli Theatre, 
New York, in Pantomine and is at present one of the leading singers 
in the New York Civic Grand Opera Company, singing principal roles 
in Faust and Paggliacci. As an evidence of the esteem in which she 
is held at the New York Studio Club, where she resides, she was se- 
lected president of the club in the absence of the regular official. 
As a product of Baylor College entirely, the institution has cause to 
be proud of this young artist, who is now only twenty-three years 
old. 

MISS JESSIE BARRIE. 

Although years had passed since Mrs. Jessie Barrie 
Booker had taught in Baylor College, and notwith- 
standing the fact that Mrs. Barrie lived in Canada, 
and never visited the school, they both helped in 
building up the Cottage Home by lending money on 
long time and at a low rate of interest. Their 
friendship and personal letters to the founder did 
much to hearten and encourage the movement. 
Mrs. Barrie has gone to her Heavenly home. Miss 
Jessie Barrie is now Mrs. N. J. Booker and lives at 
Monovia, California. 

MRS. WINIFRED A. CHEANEY MULLINS. 

Mrs. Winifred A. Cheaney Mullins has made it 
possible for many girls to be educated by the sale 
of her book entitled, "Chapters from Life." The 
publication was made possible in 1898 by Reverend 
Sid Williams, who purchased, and donated the plates 
to the Cottage Home. 

The young woman who wrote the book, Miss 
Winifred Cheaney, is a literary genius, and the 
thrilling interest which seizes the reader at the 
opening is sustained to the very close. Anyone who 
has a heart to help poor girls will find, after reading 
this book, that his heart is irresistibly turned to 
the Cottage Home of Baylor College. Here the 
poorest of our sisters are annually developed into 
the most cultured and useful of women. 

HON. W. D. UPSHAW. 

Will D. Upshaw of Atlanta, Georgia, editor of the "Golden Age," 
widely known to Texas people as "Earnest Willie," now a member of 
Congress, writes concerning a young ambitious girl, Mary Travis, whom 
he found far out on the plains of our great state. He says, "I think 
no man ever felt happier over a $5,000 profit in a real estate deal than 
L do over the thought of what it will mean to have this rare, brilliant, 
consecrated girl breathe the Baylor spirit, catch the Baylor ideals, and 
then come back and pass that richness on to countless others whose 
lives she will touch." 




Miss Jessie Barrie, 
mother and niece 




Mrs. Winifred Cheaney 
Mullins 



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MRS. MARTHA SCHWINN JORDAN. 

Mrs. Martha Schwinn Jordan is one of Baylor's daughters, who 
having passed through the fiery trials that many poor orphan girls 
must encounter while trying to prepare themselves for a useful life, 
is now a most refined, noble Christian character. While in Baylor 
she was President of the W. C. T. U. and took great interest in this 
organization. She was at one time State Secretary of the Young Peo- 
ple's Branch of the W. C. T. U. and is still a great worker. She is also 
a noted primary teacher and we give here her picture with her little 
Sunday School Class. She will be remembered for her influence foi 
W. C. T. U. work while a student in Baylor. She impressed on others 
the character of Francis E. Willard. 

Only one woman is now represented by a statue in the capital or 
any government building in Washington — Francis E. Willard, whose 
statue was presented in 1905 by the state of Illinois to Statuary Hal! 



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MR. AND MRS. E. C. ELY. 

Those who have closely watched the development of the Cottage 
Home are aware of its marvelous growth. The Lord gave a growing 
vision of the founder, then added strength and wisdom as it was 
needed. These alone would not have been sufficient. The work that 
began in a very small cottage could never have reached its present pro- 
portions, had the Lord not raised up friends to assist her in this great 
work of her life. 

Along with the pictures of. the Cottage Home helpers in a prev- 
ious section of this book are Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Ely, of those who have 
helped none have given more untiringly than this noble couple. Mrs. 
Ely has stood side by side with Mrs. Townsend in the management of 
the Home and in the carrying out of plans for this great work. 

MR. J. H. PEPPER. 

Almost in the shadow of this great institution 
lives Mr. J. H. Pepper. Through the enthusiasm of 
his friend, Rev. E. C. Ely, he became interested in 
this work and gave liberally to the first permanent 
building, now known as the Ely-Pepper Hall. 

MISS SUE COCHRAN. 

Another close friend and associate with Mrs. 
Townsend in her work is Miss Sue Cochran. While 
still a college girl, she became interested in the 
founder's plans, and almost from the beginning, she 
has given her time, energy and means to carrying 
out those plans. 

Recollections of Miss Sue Cochran bring to my 
mind a character whose ambition it was to mould 
itself into the image of the divine Master. Her law 
was that laid down in the New Testament, her ideal 
that of self so crucified that the Spirit might work 
more perfectly. She was absolutely above thought 
of worldly ambition, and would have endured any 
hardship if by so doing the cause of Christ might be 
advanced. In fact, she is imbued with all the faith 
and heroism of the early Christians. 

MISS SALLIE ROBERTS. 

The beloved Miss Sallie Roberts, now Mrs. H. 
J. Chamberlain, is another friend who has given 
herself so freely to Mrs. Townsend's aid through 
many trying years. 

MRS. JULIETTE B. TOUCHSTONE. 

The first student manager, Mrs. Juliette Boze- 
man Touchstone, gave her years of service during 
the trying time covered by the last year in the tem- 
porary buildings and the first in the permanent 
building. Her tact and loving thoughtfulness 
greatly lightened the burden of the great responsi- 
bility at this time. 



Miss Sue Cochran 




Miss Sallie Roberts 




Miss Juilette B. 
Touchstone 



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Mrs. Joe Moore 
Howard 




Mary Elizabeth 
Howard 



MRS. JOE MOORE HOWARD. 

Mrs. Joe Moore Howard came to Baylor, a 
motherless girl, graduated in three years and re- 
mained four years longer as assistant manager. Af- 
ter two years of married life, her husband entered 
the world war, and she came back to give her rare 
business ability and abundant energy to Baylor, un- 
til his return. 

OUR BAYLOR BABY. 

Mary Elizabeth Howard, little daughter of Dr. 
and Mrs. C. C. Howard. She was born on January 
11, two months after the armistice was signed and 
was five months old before her father, who was a 
doctor in A. E. F. in Prance, ever saw her. Her 
mother was Miss Joe Moore, who for three years 
was a student and for seven years held an official 
position in Baylor College. 



ANITA AND ELIZABETH STEWART 

These children belong to two 
royal Baylor families on the mother's 
side, they are members of the R. E. 
Baylor family. Their grandmother was 
Mrs. Rachael Barry Stewart of the 
famous class of 1858 — wife of Con- 
gressman Charles Stewart of Hous- 
ton. She herself was a leader in all 
the religious activities of the Bap- 
tists of Houston. Their pictures are 
with the family of Judge Baylor in 
another chapter. 




Anita and Elizabeth Stewart 




Miss Annie Laurie 
Skyes 



MISS ANNIE LAURIE SKYES. 
Baptist Industrial Home Dedicated. 

The new Industrial Home building at Houston 
was dedicated in the spring of 192 0. The Home n 
valued at thirty thousand dollars and is free from 
debt. Annie Laurie Sykes is manager, and Vecie 
King, assistant, both of whom are Baylor daughters. 



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Along with the pictures of the Cottage Home helpers in a prev- 
ious chapter the following deserve mention: Miss Ollie Cochran, who 
's now Mrs. Walter T. Davis, Miss Annie Jordan, and May Varnell 
Walton, who, with untiring effort and a spirit of self-sacrifice, traveled 
over Texas securing money for the Loan Fund. Also, Nora Wells 
McKinney, Miss Lfllie Trussel, and Lizzie Leach Turner helped in the 
Cottage Home with the sick and other departments of the home man- 
agement. 

Deepest appreciation and ceaseless gratitude is felt for all of 

these, who continue their interest and gifts. Ada Reynolds Goode 

gave to the Cottage Home, seven years of devoted service. Christian 

Education was never blessed with a more unselfish consecrated 
worker. 



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Mr. R. E. Burt 




Mrs. R. E. Burt 



MRS. KITTIB LACKEY STOKES AND MRS. EMMA 
McIVER WOODY. 

When they attended Baylor these two young 
women lived at Caldwell. It is remarkable that 
these two have both been instrumental in establish- 
ing Missionary Training Schools; Mrs. Kittie Lackey 
Stokes, the school at Ft. Worth, Texas, and Mrs. 
Emma Mclver Woody, the one at Louisville, Ken- 
tucky. 

MR . R, E. BURT AND MRS BURT. 

Few persons deserve more honorable mention 
than the great donor and beloved friend of Baylor, 
Mr. R. E. Burt of Dallas. We quote the following 
from the Baptist Standard: 

"It will be good news to our readers to learn 
that a new dormitory will be built at once, also a 
science hall. Great impetus will be given to the 
building movement by Mr. R. E. Burt, who an- 
nounced last week at Commencement that he would 
begin with a gift of fifty thousand dollars. He has 
since doubled this gift. We thank God for this 
great-hearted layman, who makes tnis investment 
in cultured, consecrated young womanhood. When commended for 
his noble gift he said very modestly: 'I have felt for a long time that 
the welfare of our country depends on the right kind of homes, and on 
the good women who make these homes. I believe that I could not 
make an investment that would count for as much as that which will 
train and develop the young women who are to be the home builders 
of the next generation." And he is pre-eminently right. Whatever 
strengthens, fortifies and reinforces the home, reinforces everything 
else that goes into the structure of Christian civilization." 

MISS ZEMMA HARE. 
From Home and Foreign Fields. 

Miss Zemma Hare was born in Orange County, 
Texas, in 1893. She was converted at the age of 
ten and immediately joined the Baptist Church. She 
received training in the Orange High School and 
took special teacher-training work in the Sam 
Houston Normal School at Huntsville, Texas. Sbe 
taught during the winter for seven years and 
attended Normals in the summer. In 1915, she re- 
ceived a call to special Christian service, but did not 
see her way clear to complete her college education 
until, finally, an opportunity was opened up at Bay- 
lor College, from which she received her A. B. de- 
gree in 1920. While a junior in college, she defi- 
nitely decided for the foreign mission field, and, hav- 
ing completed the work for her college degree by 
January, 1920, she spent the winter and spring terms 
in the training school of the Southwestern Baptist 
Theological Seminary at Ft. Worth. She will teach 
at Kaifeng, China. 

MISS JOSEPHINE KAYE. 

Miss Josephine Kaye, a student in Baylor Medi- 
cal College, is preparing to be a Medical Missionary. 




Miss Zemma Hare 




Miss Josephine Kaye 



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MISS FANNIE HOLLAND. 

Miss Fannie Holland has been most faithful for 
many years as bookkeeper, teacher of stenography, 
cashier and Post Mistress. No more faithful and 
efficient office woman could be found anywhere. 



Miss Fannie Holland 



(To 



A WISH. 

Bess Whitehead Scott. 

her friend, Lila Danforth.) 



If a fairy should come to me tonight 
With golden crown and wand. 
And through woods and daisied fields 
Should lead me by the hand, 

And bid me make one wish for you 
And pluck one flowerlet fair 

That you might wear close o'er your heart 
Or nestle in your hair, 

I would not wish you joy alone, 

Or riches or renown, 
Not the world's applause so sweet, 

Or princess' golden crown; 

I would not pluck the gorgeous rose 

With crimson heart and hue, 
Nor would it be a poppy bright, 

Or modest violet blue, 
I 
But I would pluck a daisy, dear, 

To send with love untold, 
And wish your soul might be as pure, 

Your heart always as gold. 




Mrs. Bess Whitehead 
Scott 



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POEMS 




Dr 



H. Luther 



Baylor loyalty song written by Dr. John Hill 
Luther, D. D., for thirteen years President of Bay- 
lor College: 

OLD BAYLOR. 

Old Baylor, dear Baylor, my heart clings to thee, 
Thy hills and thy rocks, each shrub and each tree 
Attest my devotion to all that is thine; 
Thy fame and thy triumph, I cherish as mine. 

Old Baylor, dear Baylor, I think of the years, 

Ere war brought its sorrows, its wants, and its tears; 

When friends gathered round thee, with blessings 

untold, 
And brought forth their offerings — youth, beauty, 

and gold. 

Old Baylor, dear Baylor, as long as thy fires 
Give warmth to our altars and homes to our sires, 
So long will we honor thy storm-beaten walls, 
The gem of the Lone Star, our own classic halls. 

Old Baylor, dear Baylor, on life's troubled sea, 
At home or abroad will our hearts cling to thee; 
And summoned on high at the end of our toil, 
We'll lie down to rest on old Baylor's dear soil. 



WHEN THE SHADOWS FALL. 

The lights are going out, the shadows fall 
About my feet; but still I follow on — 
I am not left alone. Methinks, I hear 
The footfalls, in the depths beyond, of One 
Who walked this way before in lowly garb, 
And oftimes since appears in glorious mein." 



ONWARD AND UPWARD. 
Mildred Mihills. 



Our lives, our thoughts, our souls must progress 

make, 
Each day new form and changing fashion take; 
We cannot remain the same. 
And duty says: "Now forward set your gaze; 
Let faith and hope your fallen courage raise; 

Press on with might and main." 

The Hill of Knowledge is so hard to climb, 
But jewels bright await the end of time, — 

For much is there in store. 
From early morn till noon and end of day, 
From step to step keep climbing up the way 

That leads to more and more. 




Miss Mildred Mihills 



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And near yon great mount of knowledge stands 
A band who wait to climb with willing hands, — 

All ready to ascend. 
A few steps take, return with downcast mein 
Have higher looked and greater beauties seen — 

No further yet intend. 

Their gaze is set too low, the view is missed. 
Again they will not go, though one insists; 

To them is lost fore'er! 
Here stand a few whose eyes can reach the top; 
Till they have gained it all they will not stop; 

To them is safe, ah E'er! 

Of these, one climbs the whole, long weary day, 
A gloom so deep now falls across his way — 

A backward step he takes. 
Prom far above, his guide's most welcome voice 
He hears. Ah, one that makes his heart rejoice- 

Another effort makes. 

More trials come, he can no respite know 
Until the summit reached; they all must go, — 

Reward, in truth, is given. 
For greater crown and joy for evermore 
To higher things above this earth will soar, 

And find a place in heaven. 




Dr. E. H. Wells 



Below are the beautiful dedicatory lines of the 
"Star of Bethlehem," published in 1907, by Dr. E. 
H. Wells. 

THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. 
Our life-streams, well'd not far apart, 

Strange confluence had in land remote: 
In sixty God brought heart to heart; 

In sixty-two our compact wrote. 
A honey-moon and half of years 

Have sped since you and I were wed. 

Still hand in hand, mid joys, in tears, 

We two life's tangled mazes tread. 
Women two, my life have fashioned; 

The mother dear who gave me birth, 
And thou, of all most impassioned, 

Peer of best in life and earth. 



"Gentle Annie" thou when first we met — 

These years thy wand has swayed my life: 
And thou art "Gentle Annie" yet, 

Beautiful, all-controlling wife. 
Thy gentle touch makes lives forlorn 

To brighten for eternity. 
God keep the children thou hast born 

"In "strait way" trod by Christ and thee! 
Down the hill we glide together — 

Oh, so softly, we almost seem 
To hear a voice from the other — 

Come o'er and rest this side the stream. 

The waters of the last chill river 

Seem to lap our halting feet; 
God grant that we may cross together, 

Together Christ, the Savior, meet. 




Mrs. E. H. Wells 



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Miss Mary Pettus 
Thomas 



OUR COLLEGE TOWN. 

Mary Pettus Thomas. 

Listen, and I'll tell you of a charmed spot, 

In a goodly land toward the sundown plains, 
That glows and shimmers in the sun's rays hot; 

But is deeply green after vernal rains; 
With a golden light, the moon and stars beam, 

As no where else save on Syrian plains, 
With fleckless blue, the skies at noonday gleam; 

Towards dusk, they blush with rose and purple 
stains. 



These change not — rivers, everlasting hills, 

O'er all still pours a flood of golden light, 
From leafy covert sounds the songbird's trills, 

Sunsets of dazzling beauty, greet the sight, 
From rock-ribbed hills great building blocks are 
hewn; 

Along the banks of limpid, murmuring streams 
Ferns like lace and violets blue are strewn 

On whitened fields, "the flower of commerce ' 
gleams — 

In all the Lone Star State no spot more fair; 

Wouldst see it? Ah! Search not the wide world 
o'er 
As he who vainly sought to find out where 

The four-leaved clover, Fortune's plant, might 
grow; 
And learned, at last, returning to his own, 

It, all the while, beside his door had grown. 
Wouldst thou know this place? It shall be known to 
fame. 
The town is ours, and Belton is its name. 



A TRIBUTE TO ELLA YELVINGTON ELY AND 
BAYLOR. 

Ethel Lee Scott. 

With a helping hand and a willing mind 

And a heart with love o'erflowing, 
You planted a garden within my heart 

That's ever since been growing. 

The seeds were those of Beauty and Truth, 

And Baylor was sun and air; 
And the blossoms and fruits were the knowledge I 
gained 

From the Christian teachers there. 




Mrs. Ethel Lee 
Scott 



Dear Heart, so strong to find and guide 
And urge those faltering in their quest 

For higher, truer, nobler things, 
Yours is a life of Triumph blessed. 



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Mrs. Annie Cheaney 
Humphreys 



A TRIBUTE OF LOVE. 

Sue Cochran. 

Since this richly blest year has well nigh past, 
And her choicest blessings she offers last, 

"Let's lift our hearts in grateful lays 
To him who merits all our praise." 

The blessings of this year 
For which I most praise, 

That He in His service 
Will use all my days. 

He's entrusted to me 

The time, means and grace 

In His vineyard to have 
A soul-winner's place. 

The gospel of joy 

To sad ones I take; 
The bread of life 

To some may I break. 

The message of comfort 
For a mother's heart 
When health and wealth 
Alike depart. 

II I IT T 

The gospel of grace 

To all may I tell, 
The glad ringing chorus 

Of Heaven to swell. 

God bless you, dear girls, 

In true thanksgiving 
With wholesome joy-in pure 

Christian living. 

At home or in school, 

God bless you there; 
For your absent sister 

Now breathe a prayer. 



THANKSGIVING SONG. 
Annie Cheaney Humphreys. 

Far out on field once bleak and bare, 
The sturdy pilgrims looked at morn 
And saw the harvest ripened there 
As to them all new hopes were born. 

A day of thankfulness and rest, 
Was then established in His name; 
For all were happy now and blest, 
His wondrous works they all proclaim. 

Thus do we now in reverence still 
Tell forth his love to all mankind ; 
And try our mission to fulfill 
With grateful heart and thankful mind. 



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Mrs. 



Julia Harris 

Mclver 



So shout it forth, land and sea, 
And every mountain, wood and plain; 
Give thanks, and praise His Majesty, 
Tell forth His love once and again, 

Till all the nations on this day 
Shall bless His name for evermore, 
With harp and lyre and peaceful lay — 
Till praises spread from shore to shore. 



A Christmas souvenir from Florence Davis 
Bledsoe to Julia Harris Mclver- — both of the class 
of 1866: 

Adown dim aisles of the departed years 
Come trooping ghosts of dear dead hours and days, 
Whose memories evoke swift smiles and tears 
To lips and eyes unused; and long forgotten days 
Thrill us and fill us with pain. 

Ah! fair elusive phantoms of the past, 
Mock us no more with yearnings sad as vain; 
Our sun of yesterday shone bright to the last, 
But will tomorrow bring us joy again? 

Well, tomorrow's far; today's our own, 

And 'tis enough we sit together here 

Once more, and catch each well remembered tone of 

voices that we love. One thing is clear, 

This minute holds in it our all. 

We claim, we seize it for work and for love, 
Ere yet its P.ght is hid beyond that pall 
We name Eternity. — So we move, 
Loving and working, Let what will befall. 



LOVE AND FAME. 
Mary Wade Johnson. 

Ambition cries, "A Mansion. 
A bright career of fame; 
Go seek a world of honor, 
With laurels deck your name." 

But Cupid sighs, "A Cottage, 
Among the vines and flowers, 
With birds and bees and blossoms 
Spend quiet, peaceful hours." 

Ambition cries, "A future 
Make brilliant with your pen. 
Go win the highest praises, 
Surprise the minds of men." 

But Cupid cries, "A present, 
A happy life, though plain, 
Amid the nodding clover 
And fields of waving grain." 



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Mrs. Mary Wade 
Johnson 



Ambition cries, "A title, 
A castle o'er the blue." 
But cupid cries, "A farmer, 
Whose heart is kind and true." 

And thus begins the struggle, — 
Oh, who will win the heart, — 
Ambition's crown cf laurels 
Or Cupid's silver dai"t? 



WHEN WE FORGIVE. 

Mary Wade Johnson. 

When we can think of them and truly pray 
That naught shall bar the sunlight from the way 

That they must tread; 
When pure heart tears have washed away the stains 
From mem'ry's page and only sorrow reigns, 

As for the dead; 
When thoughts of them no longer cause unrest, 
Or bitterness, or anger in our breast; 

When we can smile 
And feel our hearts with faith and patience fill 
And child-like trust that bids us wait until 

God's After-while 
Explains the wounds we can not understand 
And heals them with the Magic of His hand; 

When patiently, 
Our lips can kiss the Cross and question not 
The fairness, nor the justness of our lot; 

When we can see 
Above the clouds the Spirit Lights of Heaven, 
Then we can truly say we have forgiven. 



CLOSING VERSES OF CLASS POEM 1900. 
Mrs. Emma Thomas Duncan. 

We'd like to stay, we don't want to leave 

These memory-haunted halls; 
But Life's widened horizon stretches on — 

We hear inexorable calls. 
May precepts which have been given 

Grow clearer every day, 
And characters they have helped to form, 

Shine with steadfast gleam always. 

May our Souls be kept as lillies pure — 

Lillies white, with hearts of gold, 
That out from noisome, marshy bed 

Fragrance and beauty unfold. 
Not in gay gardens of pleasure 

Are spent the most joyous hours, 
It is in the Master's field alone 

Blossom forth the fairest flowers. 

May they who've led us in Wisdom's paths, 

May they "to Heaven late return," 
And "Well done, thou good and faithful ones, 

Be the plaudit they shall earn. 
Along Life's road — Life's lengthening road- 

Whose end one sees never — 
Safe within the hollow of His hand 

God keep you all — forever. 



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ALMA MATER, 1900. 

This poem is annonymous, but we are sure ; t 
must have come from the heart of our beloved Dr. 
E. H. Wells. 

From every sister gone before, 
From every soul of now and yore, 
Who has rightly delved for golden ore 

Of truth, comes answer o'er and o'er; 
'Tis not the end, but just commencement, girls. 
You're on the threshold now of Baylor-home; 
One step, and you are out where madding whirls 
Of real life will surge; billows capped white with 

foam 
Around you unroll, and tempest roam, 
As when the black clouds burst along the shore. 

This much of principle, fore-warmed, forearmed. 
Th' unwary, not the cautious are most harmed. 

Fast wanes the century, 

Grandest in history, 
Filled with a pageantry 

Of thought, deed and glory, 
(Jnequaled by any; o'ershadowing them all 
In the uplift of many from the depths of man's fall. 

Benediction, 
O Spirit divine, essence ethereal, 
That brooded o'er chaos material, 
And from incubation unknowable 
Wrought all life-forms bestowable; 
Rest on these today in heart, in mind, and soul! 
First of three clarify; the next illuminate; 
And in the last abide, while busy years shall roll, 
Life's purposes to guide, and wills to dominate. 



WHAT THE A. B. SENIORS HAVE DONE 
1909. 

In the foremost files of ages 
When Father Time was cute 

This brainy class of Seniors 
Discovered the A. B. Route. 

We first met up with Caesar 

Who led us into Gaul, 
Then Cicero told us Catiline 

Was no good at all. 

We went with Virgil down to Troy, 

And captured Helen fair, 
When Dido fondled the god of love, 

We dared not linger there. 

We stood upon the lofty Alps, 
With Hannibal in the snow, 

And caught a glimpse of B. S.'s 
In a sunny vale below. 

We spent sometime with Homer, 
Mid' scenes in Ancient Greece, 

Then followed after Plato 
Our wisdom to increase. 



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Between Geology and Astronomy, 

We made no compromise, 
But abrutiy left the earth 

And soared to the skies. 

With Tacitus, Horace and Xenophon, 

We have freely conversed, 
We have visited shrines and oracles, 

And many seas traversed. 

Of all that mighty host 

Who this interesting route hegan, 
We four remain 

When, at last the journey's done. 

As we hewed out impassable ways, 
Those stopped who couldn't dig, 

Some lost their heads in logic, 
And others flunked in Trig. 

In spite of all we've done, 

We are neither pale nor thin, 

We h&ve few gray hairs upon our heaf 
And much gray matter within. 

We are like the Grecian army, 
Hand to hand and face to face, 

We have conquered many subjects, 
Each girl has filled her place. 

Delia Routh, the foremost girl, 

We call this army's van, 
In a mighty siege of exams, 

Delia's the girl who can. 

Alta Long and Ollie Cochran 

Constitute its wings, 
For you find them neither at the front, 

Nor are we in the rear of things. 

One other part an army has, 
And since we are four in all 

None other's left to form the rear, 
But the writer — 

Una Hall. 




Mrs. Kate Yelvington 
Roy 



MY SOUL FORGETS HER SADNESS. 
Kate Yelvington Roy. 

The day is calm, no truant breeze 

Disturbs the quiet air, 
No whispering music from the tree, 

Tells that the wind is there. 
The air is fragrant with perfume 

From myraids of flowers, 
That with the beauty of their bloom 

Make sweet the woodland bowers. 

The mocking bird in joyous song 
Thrills forth his inward glee, 

And other birds the chorus join 
In bursts of melody. 

The droning bee on busy wing- 
Steals nectar from the flowers; 

A million insects shrilly sing, 
Through all the golden hours. 



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From rosy dawn till set of sun 
The day is filled with gladness, 

And ere its final course is run, 
My soul forgets her sadness — * 

With all the earth so blithe and glad 
'Twere sin in mortal to be sad. 



MY BAYLOR. 
Guion Griff is, '21. 

Thou college of fame, haven of peace, 
Where opportunity opens the door; 

Sought out by all who seek release 
Prom ignorance, groveling and base. 

Thy walls nave been the wanderer's guide, 
From heavy shackles, narrow creeds, 

Hatred thy leaders have defied, 
To save thy vision by thy deeds. 

Let not thy royal banner be marred, 
Thy stars dimmed by hateful fear; 

Let not thy daughters hold cheap thy scars, 
Nor count the vision's price too dear. 

O, sisterhood of Baylor girls! 

O, heritage our fathers gained! 
Be ours to keep thy flag unfurled, 

Be ours to keep thy name unstained. 

THE NAUGHTY FAIRIES. 

Winifred Thorn. 

The moon has crossed the milky way, 

And smiling from on high, 
Lets all her shining tresses down 

Between the earth and sky. 

The naughty fairies of the dawn 

Creep up that silver way, 
And change the moon into the sun, 

The night into the day. 

WHAT? 

Bess Whitehead Scott. 

A burst of light, a note of song, 
A newness felt on sky and earth, 

A sweetness on balmy morn — 
And this is Birth. 

The glowing ray of mid-day sun, 
A work begun, a heated strife, 

A yearning after more beyond — 
And this is Life. 

The twilight dim, a starless night, 

A whispered word, an indrawn breath, 

A carol low, the vast Beyond — 
Ah, what is Death? 



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AFTERMATH. 
Bess Whitehead Scott. 

Ah, yes, her heart broke. 

Not the moment when she knew 
She'd lost her very all because 

She was herself untrue. 

Ah, true, her heart broke. 

Not the moment when she viewed 
The long lone life-way stretched within 

A drear world ashen-hued. 

Ah, God, her heart broke. 

'Twas the moment when she felt 
Her sin had wrapped another's heart 

In chill no tears could melt. 



THE KEY. 

Maud Hamlett Perkins. 

As pants the deer for cooling streams 'mid heat of 

summer day, 
As wanderer pines for touch of rose to cheer the 

desert gray, 
As watcher yearns for coming dawn, when Pain her 

vigil keeps, 
As erring one for mother longs when night's lone 

shadow creeps, 

So longed I His grace to show — sufficient grace how 
wide ! 

(Grace in Him The Living One and yet The Cruci- 
fied.) 

So yearned I to witness for the faith that trusts iu 
need, 

(His faith — my faith — twain in one. Ah! That is 
faith indeed!) 

The plea was heard. The answer came in His dear 

way, not mine, 
Through sorrow's path and days of woe, from tender 

hand divine; 
The Father opened my yielded heart and laid its 

treasures bare; 
Resplendent gems — Peace and Joy — securely rested 

there; 
No pain, no grief, no darkened sky could dim the 

beauteous store — 
(Riches of grace revealed in Christ and mine for- 

evermore!) 
Seeing these, the world believed. This His plan and 

will, 
And chastisement the Key He used my longings to 

fulfill. 



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Mrs. j-ictitie 
Woodruff Hillyer 



Essays and Messages 



Of the women who have gone out from Baylor College into the 
realm of literature, we may be justly proud. No field of work can 
hold up more plainly to the world, the ideals imbibed during school 
days than of writing, which may aid in stimulating a taste for the best 
in books and magazines. 

If there was ever a time in the world's history 
when high ideals and true Christian standards 
should be held up before the young of our land, it is 
at the present. The reading world seems to have 
gene mad over sensational stories and melodramic 
plays. Its taste needs to be cultivated and refined. 
This slow but sure, leavening of the mind and taste, 
Baylor's own writers are helping to accomplish. 

Mrs. Hattie Woodruff Hillyer, class of '88, has 
beautifully written a true story of one of the first 
gifts contributed to lay the foundation of Baylor 
College. This story bears the title, "His Mother's 
Example" and is truly an inspiration to its readers. 

Mrs. Ethel Lee Scott, a native English girl, who 
came to Baylor through the influence of Mrs. Ella 
Yelvington Ely, made a record that is worthy of 
honorable mention. She is a graduate of the class 
of 1898, and has written much besides tributes for 
this book. While in school she received many gold 
medals, some of these were won for best essays. 

SOUTHERN LITERATURE. 

Extracts from the graduating essay of Mrs. Emma Thomas Dun- 
gan, a member of the class of 1900: 

It was Patrick Henry who first struck the note of independence, 
and a southern man who wrote the Declaration of Independence. A 
Virginia farmer penned the 'Bill of Rights,' the finest state paper 
e\ er written on the continent. Maury, who laid down the laws of the 
winds and tides and chased the pathless deep into highways; and 
Audubon, America's greatest naturalist — all these were men of the 
Suuth. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Marshall do not suffer 
oy comparison with the foremost public men of any land." 

There was an uncomfortable prejudice against the writing of 
poetry. Randolph and the philosophical Calhoun boasted that they 
would go down to the grave guiltless of rhyme; yet Randolph's letters 
contain the concentrated essence of intellectual energy. 'Don't write 
that stuff,' was said to Phillip Pendleton Cooke of 'Florence Vane,' 
which Poe pronounced the finest lyric ever written in America. 

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Mrs. Ethel Lee 
Scott 



'My Life is Like a Summer Rose,' an exquisite gem, was trans- 
lated into Greek and attributed to a Greek author, before Richard 
Henry Wilder, a lawyer and politician, would admit that he wrote it. 

Strange, is it not, that through poetry our land was first intro- 
duced into the realm of letters? As the Latin poems of Milton 
caused Italy to realize that the island which Caesar discovered was 
civilized, so Edgar Allen Poe made foreign nations recognize that fact 
about the South. As poets, Poe, Sidney Lanier and Henry Timrod 
are said by competent critics to compare favorably with Longfellow. 
Wnituer, and Bryant. 

Thomas Nelson Page's stories are full of charm and are charac- 
terized by perfect simplicity, genuine sentiment, and the refinement 
ot feeling which is one of his truest gifts. 

Richard Malcolm Johnson will long be remembered on account of 
his humoivus sketches of Middle Georgia; Grace King for her New 
Orleans Pictures, and George W. Cable for his excellent delineation of 
^reole character. 

Drifting Down Lost Creek is a classic, and Cynthy Ware is 
worthy to rank among the immortals. 

Miss Marfee, better known as Charles Egber Craddock, has made 
the dwellers in the mountains of Tennessee familiar to the whole 
country. 

Miss Mary Johnson, a young Southern writer of wonderful prom- 
ise, has achieved the most notable success of the year in her last novel, 
To Have and To Hold. No serial in the Atlantic Monthly since 
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table has attracted so much attention, or 
gained so many subscribers for that magazine. 

PRIZE ESSAY. 

Extracts from prize essay of Addie Grimmette Truett in the 
"ready writing" contest of the Historical Society in 1900. 

We must enter college with a clear conception of what lies be- 
fore us; we must be fixed in purpose, determined that nothing not in 
accordance with His Will shall turn us from our purpose. There must 
be determination, but along with it other things must be taken into 
consideration. Lest in our anxiety we take too much work, live in 
such a wrought up condition as to wear ourselves away in a few months 
time, we must use prudence and foresight. From experience I know 
that there can be such strain, day by day, in order to prepare a great 
list of lessons, as to take away not only our best energy, but the sweet- 
ness of school life. 

But is this our sole purpose, to spend our entire college days for 
self? No, for the sweetest part of college life is the coming in contact 
with and helping hundreds of other lives. At no other place and no 
other time have we such opportunities to study the beauties and de- 
fects of character, and never shall our lives come so near others as in 
college, away from home and loved ones, where we naturally cling to 
someone, placing our hearts open beside theirs. With such heart to 
heart friends, such tender ties as room mates and classmates, certain 
to be a source of strength and joy to all is one of the most important 
features of college life. 

Then we may answer this great question of how to make the most 
of college life by showing daily that our purpose is to be, and have 
others to be, women of great mind, pure thoughts and noble feelings, 
women who will always be in sympathy with life and will enlist their 
entire nature in their work." 



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HEROISM. 

Mrs. May Varnell Walton of the 1903 class was 
another interesting writer. "The Heroism of Some 
College Girls" is a series of stories telling of the 
lives of some of her school friends. 



Mrs. May "Varnell 
Walton 



EDITOR OF THE FIRST NINETY 
PAGES OF THIS BOOK. 

When Lora Lee Andrews came to 
Baylor College, she was a little girl 
in the grades. After receiving the B. 
L. degree here, she taught a few years 
and then graduated with the A. B. de- 
gree at Baylor University. She has 
attained the heights of fame as pri- 
mary teacher. To her, more than 
any other person, we are indebted for 
the work on this history, "After Sev- 
enty-five Years." She came during 
the longest, hottest summer days, and 
gave her valuable service to the plan- 
ning and editing of this book. She 
wrote all of Part One with the excep- 
tion of the last two chapters. 




Miss Lora Lee Andrews 




Mrs. Ollie 
Cochran Davis 



THE READY WRITER. 

While on a visit to Baylor College, Mr. W. D. 
Upshaw of Atlanta, Georgia, now a member of the 
United States Congress, offered a gold medal to be 
awarded to the best "ready writer." In June, 1909, 
this medal was given to Miss Ollie Cochran, now 
Mrs. Walter T. Davis. Miss Cochran entered the 
Cottage Home as a very small girl; and, after grad- 
uating, she secured thousands of dollars for the 
Home and for her Alma Mater. 



FROM HER MOUNTAIN SCHOOL. 

What the Statue of Liberty means to loyal American hearts every 
where, as a symbol of truth, justice, and patriotism, that Baylor Col- 
lege means to the hearts that love her. It is an emblem of ideals, ser- 
vice, and the new day of freedom for womanhood that is dawning in 
all the world. To Baylor, are raised, in eager expectation, the eyes of 
the Southland's loyal daughters. 

To those who have lived under the shadow of her stately halls 
and are going out as voyagers on the sea of life, she stands at the port, 
sending them forth into all the world. She holds them forever to 



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herself with bonds that are stronger than life. As time and interests 
separate them, it is with a homesick longing, too deep for tears, thac 
each daughter looks back and sees her Alma Mater yet holding up to 
her the torch of knowledge. She knows that, though unseen, Bay- 
lor's heart will always cherish, and her love enfold each brave daugh- 
ter that travels in any land or clime. 

As "Liberty Enlightening the World" represents high ideals of 

freedom, equity, and fraternity with Liberty and Justice to all, so 

Baylor College stands "a beacon light on the shore of time," forever 
holding up her hands in earnest supplication for the freedom of wom- 
en, everywhere; for equality of opportunity to all, and for a fraternal 
spirit of love and charity wherever ignorance or oppression exists; 
desiring always a larger liberty in finding themselves in any sphere 
where their hearts or the inner vision may lead; feeling sure that, not 
only would justice be forever secured, but understanding and syste- 
matic co-operation as well. 

For more than three score years and ten, Baylor College has stood 
for these ideals. In this great idea of world-wide need, she stands ma- 
jestic in her strength, and again voices the truths for which she has 
given her life. Invincible is her might, for her foundations are laid 
in the hearts of strong men and brave women, who count no price too 
dear to pay for her protection. Through her daughters the light of her 
life is being carried to every part of the globe. No place can be so far. 
away or so small, that her radiance is not beaming into the souls of her 
daughters, and, through them to the needy people among whom they 
live and serve. — Written by Miss Minnie Cochran while in Parthenon, 
Arkansas. 

The following was written by Miss Cochran before she went to 
teach in the mountain school. 

"What the melting snows are to the mountain streams; what the 
storms are to the giants of the forest; what the melody of nature is to 
the heart of a poet; that Baylor is, and has been, to me. She has 
fed the stream of my mind from the pure fountain of knowledge. She 
has strengthened the citadel of my character by her matchless precepts 
and example. She has inspired my heart and soul with a holy enthusi- 
asm to seek for the best and highest joy there is to be found in a life 
of unselfish love and service. 

OUR OPPORTUNITY AS RURAL TEACHERS. 

Baylor College sends out many teachers each year. In the follow- 
ing letter Mrs. Nellie Derrick Bounds gives a sketch of the opportuni- 
ties in the Rural School of today. 

Texas boasts of her system of schools and their financial support, 
but probably few people know as well as the rural school teachers how 
far this excellent school system falls short of its aims. Should you go 
into a typical country school in Texas to teach, you would find that 
the conditions are different from that which a silver-tongued orator 
speaking of "The Glorious Lone Star State" would have you think. 

On the whole, the people of the rural districts are earnest in 
their endeavor to make a living and to learn what they can of the 
political conditions of the country. More than this, does not interest 
them. Most of them succeed in making a living but their political 
ideas are often dwarfed and twisted by the reading of the cheap, infer- 
ior literature. 

There is a demand, or rather a crying need, for conscientious 
Christian teachers in our rural schools. 

There are children nearly grown in some places who never heard 
a sermon and many more that never attended Sunday School. This 

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fact, deplorable as it may seem at first sight, gives the teacher a great 
opportunity to effectively teach the Bible. Because the life of Christ 
and other stories in the Bible, are new to the children, they will learn 
them more readily. 

The hope of these communities lies in the colleges and universities 
of Texas, whose mission it is to send out trained teachers. 

After having lived through the struggles for her own education, a 
Baylor girl feels a deep interest in the lives of the pupils. Her own 
life, strengthened and mellowed by her hardships and sorrows, makes 
her able to understand and reach the innermost life of the timid, 
shrinking country girl. 

We might mention, too, the influence of the teacher in political 
matters. In the school room where a Christian teacher presides the 
children get ideas of government more conducive to the public safety 
than those gotten from corrupt political papers and magazines that 
are too often found in their homes. 

We know of a number of instances where Baylor girls have gone 
into communities to teach and having gained the love of the children, 
also secured the interest of their parents, and organized Sunday 
Schools, Young People's Societies, Mother's Clubs and other social 
meetings. 

Many others of the class of 1912 have" been teachers. 



SIGNALS. 

Miss Lura Jones, a member of the class of 1914, 
and who is now teaching in Hilo, Hawaii, heralds 
a challenge for all Christians in the following "Sig- 
nals:" 

In a congested traffic district where hundreds 
of electric trains, carrying a large per cent of the 
population of three great cities, pass and repass 
daily, there is an intricate system of electric signals 
that keep what otherwise would be confusion and 
chaos in perfect order and safety. 




Miss Lura Jones 



The great power plant standing at a distance 
reflects, through the thousands of various colored 
lights, a force that controls every moment of the day and night, every 
train in the system. 

As I stand there contemplating this marvelous system, the scene 
changes. The Great power plant is God; the hurrying trains are hu- 
man souls, and the signals are we, who know God. But what does 
it mean? 

Listen! A crash — a terrible wreck — hundreds of lives lost! 
What could have caused it? The signals there failed to work. Was 
the power sufficient? No, the power was just the same, but — the con- 
nections were broken. 

My heart, almost paralyzed with fear, cried out, 'O God! Are we 
responsible to that extent?' And the answer came back, 'Ye are my 
signals.' 

Miss Jones also gives us a glimpse of the field of work that Baylor 
girls may take up in Hawaii. 

Th«- mixture of races is very interesting to me. The white people 
have married into the brown races, especially in the Hawaiian race, 
until there are \ery few 'pure' races among the people who have been 
here a long time. 



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I find the moral standard low, and the sense of responsibili- 
ty very slack 01110ns the most of the people. The opportunity that we, 
as teachers have for doing missionary work is unlimited. The pupils 
are very eager to learn. They work hard, are intelligent, and want to 
be Americanized. Most of our fifty-two seniors are planning to go to the 
States to college next year. 

She also says: I must tell you about the biggest active volcano 
in the world; it is only thirty miles away. If you can imagine a lake 
of liquid fire three miles across, with hundreds of fountains of fire 
leaping, sometimes hundreds of feet in the air and roaring like thun- 
der; with sulphuric fumes filling the air till it is almost impossible to 
breathe, you can get some conception of what it is like. Dante and 
Milton described it; but no description I have ever read can be so like 
the lake of fire. It is worth a trip across the ocean to see it. 



THE BAYLOR OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS. 
Alice Bagby. 

Collegio Progresso Brazileiro, or the Baylor College of the South- 
ern Cross, was founded in Brazil by an American woman in 1895, fifty 
years after the founding of Baylor College of the Lone Star. 

When the school was but five years old, my mother, Mrs. Anne 
Luther Bagby, daughter of Baylor College and a missionary to Brazil, 
bought the school. It was an exciting time for us little Bagbys when 
we moved into that house of many rooms and were free to play in the 
spacious back yard, which was much in contrast to the other Brazil- 
lian yards we had played in all our lives. 

I was only a wee kindergartener then, but slowly climbed through 
the last class in school. In the meantime the school climbed to success 
and is now the property of the Southern Baptist Convention. Six years 
ago the school was moved into the home of an old Duchess of Portugal, 
because it had outgrown its old quarters and now after twenty years 
of faithful and loving work on the part of my mother, Collegio Progres- 
so passed from her administration to that of a Baylor University son, 
Mr. "Happy" Ingram. God has answered my prayers and this fall I 
am returning to the land of my birth, with the training and inspira- 
tion of four years in Baylor College and two in the Training School at 
Fort Worth. I shall put forth every effort to make our Baylor College 
of the Southern Cross as mighty in the molding of the voung woman- 
hood of Brazil as is the Baylor College of the Lone Star in the molding 
of American womanhood. 

A REMEMBRANCE. 



"Oh Baylor, dear Baylor, 
My heart clings to thee." 

It clings to your hills and to your 
trees, to your beautiful campus and 
classic halls; but better still, it clings 
with abiding love and gratitude to the 
memory of the dear teachers who in 
stilled in my young life the ideals for 
which you stand. As my face now 
turns away from you to our sister, 
America, my heart is heavy with long- 
ing to again express my appreciation 
of you, — my dear Alma Mater. Onlv 
a life given entirely to the accomplish- 
ment of the program set out for me 
by my savior, can be proof of my 




Miss Alice Bagby 



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gratitude to you. Across seven thousand miles I came to you, a very 
young girl with all my college work before me, and my life work but 
dimly conceived. You have been the instrument in the hands of the 
Divine Architect, thus making His plans real to me. 

I go now to perpetuate your work in the moulding of the lives 
of these fine young Brazilian women in the embryo Baylor College 
of "The Land of the Southern Cross." God grant that I may really 
and truly be your missionary and your representative in "The Land of 
the Southern Cross." 

Daughters of Baylor, friends of Baylor, — you whose privilege it 
is to abide in a country near to her; in the name of the Savior who 
said, "Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations," — I beg 
of you to make it possible that more of her daughters shall answer 
that call by being able to get their needed preparation. Endow Bay- 
lor, and Baylor will endow the world. 




Miss Ora Shearin, founder of the "Ora Shearin Emergency Fund" 
for sick Baylor girls, writes the following cheery letter: 

Kerville, Texas, April 9, 1920. 
To Baylor "Shut-Ins" Everywhere: 
My dear friends: 

I have been sick for five years, and for nearly 
two years I have been in bed all the time, not even 
getting up for meals. At first, my illness was a 
great shock and a bitter disappointment to me. Mv 
college course was interrupted just when the future 
Miss ora Shearin seemed most golden, and I had built such glorious 

hopes. It took me a long time to realize that ill- 
ness was a blessing; but if I never get up again I am not sorry for 
the wonderful experiences that have come to me for they more than re- 
pay all that I have suffered. "It is good for me that I have been afflicted 
that I might learn Thy statues." I have been given a broader, more 
sympathetic understanding of human nature. Sometimes it takes a 

bitter experience to teach us our lessons, but when we have learned 
them, what a peace and satisfaction! "The refining pot is for silver and 
the furnace for gold. But the Lord trieth the hearts." If through 
trials and troubles we can burn the dross from our lives, we hope to 
come forth a vessel that can be of use to the Lord. 

One is tempted to become rebellious at times, but earnest pray- 
ers, and trust that God will do all for the best, will enable us to con- 
quer. 



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Mrs. Fannie May 
Barbel' Hughes 



"FRAGMENTS." 

Extracts from a Letter to Mrs. Townsend. 

"This is to tell you that my first book is to be 
published soon. The Christopher Publishing Com- 
pany, Boston, Massachusetts, will issue it early in 
September. "Fragments" is the name and it con- 
sists of essays and poems. I am sending you the 
advance notice. I feel very proud of my success, 
and want to tell you that much of it is due to your 
early influence; I am praying for your success 
through all the years. 

I was nothing but a child when my father took 
me to Baylor and put me in dear Dr. Luther's charge. I shall never 
forget the day he said good-bye. I little knew then, what the years 
would unfold. 

Through all, you were my comforter. I felt always, when in trou- 
ble at school, I only had to go to you, so now I want to tell you that 
your confidence and love expressed at that time has had a great deal 
to do with the things I have felt impelled to do. 

When the book reaches me, I shall take great pride in sending 
you an autographed copy. 

Fannie May Barbee Hughes. 

Mrs. Hughes has served as president of the Texas Women's Press 
Association, and continues to be active in club and patriotic work. 
There are hundreds of other Baylor graduates in the ranks of the 
clubs and patriotic societies, filling responsible places and performing 
civic duties — an honor to Baylor training. 




Mr. George 
Rosborough 



Mr. George Baines Rosborough is not only a 
great athletic director, but a noble Christian gentle- 
man. This fact is illustrated by the following copy 
of a Christmas card which he sent to Baylor friends: 
(Christmas Greeting- — 1919) 
JOY TO THE WORLD! THE LORD IS COME! 

REJOICE! That in old Bethlehem He incar- 
nated His high Deity in the dear human form whose 
red blood flowed on Calvary for our redemption! 

REJOICE! That in rich Joseph's tomb on Eas 
ter morn, He clothed His death-defeating Deity and 
humanity, in the changed and wondrous body that 
was seen at Emmaus and Olivet. Being raised for 
our justification — an earnest of our coming glory! 

REJOICE! That now, today, He incarnates Himself in every 
human form completely passive to His will; rules in ten thousand 
hearts; speaks with ten thousand tongues; ministers in mercy to a 
weary, sin-sick world through twice ten thousand consecrated hands 
— through yours and mine! 

REJOICE! That soon He will come again to walk in the sin- 
scarred highways of His now rebellious earth, — not in humiliation, but 
in imperial power omnipotent! AND WE, with bodies like His own, 
shall see and SERVE HIM EVERMORE! MAY THESE ABIDING 
JOYS BE YOURS THIS CHRISTMASTIDE! 



Pa 



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In Memoriam 



MARY RUSSELL DAVIS. 

Miss Mary Russell Davis, an early teacher of Baylor, was one 
whose life was pure, unselfish, and eminently useful. She was strick- 
en with illness and death claimed her on November 4, 1865. Her life, 
not measured by years but by its affluence of deeds, was one whose 
memory will long survive in loving hearts. Her body was tenderly 
committed to the ground on the Baylor College campus at Independ 
ence, soon after the gentle spirit had returned to God. 




Judge R. E. B. Baylor When a Young Man. 

JUDGE R. E. B. BAYLOR. 

Prom my early childhood, I was taught to honor and revere the 
name of Judge Baylor. In 1839, when this great man came to Texas, 
he like Socrates, taught the barefooted boys of the village. My father, 
who was then a lad of eleven years, was one of his pupils in the historic 
old town of LaGrange on the Colorado. It was Judge Baylor's custom 
to hold court during the day, teach at night, and preach on Sunday. 

Remarkable indeed, is the influence of this man, even at the pres- 
ent time. His influence has reached over three centuries. He was 
born in the eighteenth century, worked through and died at the close 
of the nineteenth, and was re-interred at Belton in the twentieth. What 
will the record at the Judgment Day unfold, when we read of his pow- 
er and influence throughout the ages? His sweetheart having died, 
he was never married; but the students of Baylor delight in calling 
him father. 

On May 6, 1917, Judge R. E. B. Baylor's remains were brought 
to Belton. This occasion was made memorable by impressive cere- 



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monies which were held in Alma Reeves Chapel. Dr. A. E. Baten 
presided, and Drs. G. W. Baines, J. M. Carroll, S. P. Brooks, and J. C. 
Hardy were the speakers. Dr. Baines and Dr. Carroll, who were for- 
mer students of Baylor University, served as Judge Baylor's pall bear- 
ers at Belton. 

ELLI M. TOWNSEND. 

A DAUGHTER'S TRIBUTE TO HER MOTHER. 

I write about a part of the life of my mother 
because it may be a help and inspiration to some 
other ambitious mother, who is yearning to educate 
her children. 

When a small girl, she lost her mother. As 
soon as she was old enough, her ambitious father 
sent her to the best college in Texas. But after two 
years, her new stepmother persuaded the father that 
the expense of a boarding school was far too great; ,„ r ,. 

,',.', . . Mrs. Indiana 

and, to the daughter s great sorrow and disappoint- Keys Moore 

ment, she was removed from college. When seven- 
teen years of age, she accepted the offer of marriage from a farmer, 
and entered into her home life with a heart full of interest. 

At the end of twenty years she had become the happy mother of 
five promising daughters. From the very beginning of their lives they 
were taught the meaning of a life of education and usefulness. Every 
possible means was used to instill into their young hearts the desire 
to become educated, useful and worthy women. To them the thought 
of entering college came as a matter of course. Prom their earliest 
childhood, they watched their mother economize and plan to save 
money for their college education. Luxuries of all kinds were put off 
until they had graduated. 

For twenty-four years every dollar that had been made and could 
be spared from anything else, was saved to pay college bills. Had it 
been necessary, stock, lands, household goods — everything — would 
have been sacrifieced to this end. My mother had little encourage- 
ment and many disappointments; but nothing baffled her. Finally, 
when financial strains came, she borrowed money, and in every honor- 
able way gathered together funds to defray college expenses. 

Five of her daughters were in college at one time; and well they 
know what it was costing their mother who was out on that lonely 
farm. Her example of self-denial and heroic living will be an inspira- 
tion to them forever. 

She lived to see four of her daughters receive diplomas from Bay- 
lor College. After her own children were educated, she continued in 
Hie same self-denying way to plan for the education of others. As a 
result of her wise management, a gift of five thousand dollars was 
made, through her, to Christian Education. Although her money ha'^ 
been, and is, of great value, it is but little compared with the power 
of her example because of the life of sacrifice she lived in order to pre 
pare her children for all that is highest and best in life. 

"Tis human fortune's happiest height to be a 
Spirit melodies, lucid, poised and whole; 
Second in order of felicity 
I hold to have walked with such a soul." 

ELLI M. TOWNSEND. 



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Mrs. Hollie 
Harper Townsend 



HOLLIE HARPER TOWNSEND AND HER 
APPEAL. 

This sketch of Hollie Harper Townsend was 
written by Mrs. R. T. Hanks, just after reading a 
revised edition of "Chapters from Life." 

The book carries with it all the thrilling inter- 
est of the former edition and has the added charm 
of a chapter on Mrs. Hollie Harper Townsend, and 
with a speaking likeness of her at the head of the 
chapter. No young woman in Texas has wrought 
more nobly and industriously for the Lord than has 
our own dear Hollie. As a church member, as Sun- 
day School teacher, as editor of the woman's department in the Baptist 
Standard, and as helper in all phases of woman's organized work, as 
Bible woman under the Sunday School Board, and as helper of her 
husband on the chapel car, "Good Will," she was deeply consecrated, 
brilliantly gifted, and eminently successful. The chapter on her life 
and the beautiful picture of her, alone, are worth more than the price 
of the book. 

God took her from us in all the beauty and glory of her young 
life,- — at the dawn of her motherhood; leaving her first born, a son, to 
perpetuate her life. Hence, the chapter of her life, as related to the 
great enterprise of which the book speaks, will fall upon many a heart 
that loved her, as the dew upon a withering flower in a dry and thirsty 
land. 

Extracts from the first circular for the Cottage Home portray 
the earnestness with which Mrs. Hollie Harper Townsend labored 1,0 
make the Home a blessing to humanity. Miss Hollie Harper under- 
took the invaluable task of publicity agent for the Cottage Home. In 
1896, she published the first circular entitled "A Word With You,"' 
from which we quote: 

"Our present plea is that you assist us in establishing a perma- 
nent Student Fund, which shall be used to maintain these noble earnest 
girls in school. Permit me to suggest that no richer field for Christian 
benevolence can be found than this. It is not only providing a home 
for the homeless and friends for the friendless, but it is giving the 
neediest class of the women of today the highest education with social 
and religious advantages. It rescues them, oftimes, from cheerless 
lives of endless toil and poverty and ignorance, and lifts them to lives 
of tne very highest usefulness. Could you only visit the Cottage Home 
and look into the brave faces of these girls, to whom life is so real, and 
who are struggling so hard to be simply what God intended them to be, 
you could not refuse them the aid they so much need. What measur- 
less worlds of good accomplished! 

May the dear Lord touch your heart with this urgent need as He 
has mine." 

REV. W. R. MAXWELL. 

In 1900, services in the chapel were held in 
memory of our deceased trustee, Brother W. R. 
Maxwell. 

PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 

Dr. F. M. Law died on June 10, 1902, at the 
close of the Commencement exercises. Dr. Law was 
the veteran President of the Board of Baylor trus- 
tees. He was a very worthy and dearly loved man, 
and his death was a great loss to Baylor and other 
friends. No one has ever served the college as 
Dr. f. m. Law trustee so long and so faithfully. 

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Graduation Class of 18 79. 



FRANCES HATCHETT 

By Elli M. Townsend, 
Her Classmate. 

In 1900, services were 
held in Baylor College 
Chapel in memory of 
our beloved Dr. Fannie 
Hatchett, late cf Phila- 
delphia. 

"Death is but the 
gateway to Resurrec- 
tion " Thrcugh such a 
gateway has the spirit 
of our beloved friend 
and Alumna, Miss Fan- 
nie Hatchett passed. 
Without warning she 
was suddenly snatched 
away by acute pneu- 
monia in March 1900 

Frances was left an orphan at nine years of age and traveled 
from Arkansas to Texas in order to work her way through Baylor Col- 
lege. Her scholarship was thorough and accurate. At the close of 
a few years she graduated in 1879, together with Mrs. Leila Law Boat- 
wright and myself. 

Her college course completed in Baylor, she removed to Philadel- 
phia, where she entered the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania. Completing her medical education, she filled for sever- 
al years a professorship in the same institution. 

She became eminent in her profession, and for a considerable 
period was city physician to the poor. Pier fame spread and she was 
one of the most distinguished women on this side of the Atlantic. 

That death's blight should so soon take away so useful and conse- 
crated a life, is indeed a mystery. In that she made the most of life, 
we can say of her as of every noble nature before her, "She hath done 
what she could." 

DR. J. H. LUTHER. 

In 1903, a great wave of sorrow swept over 
many hearts when there were opened letters from 
Sao Paulo, Brazil, which told of the death of Dr. 
J. H. Luther. 

. It will be recalled that Dr. Luther left Temple 
last winter to visit the family of his daughter, Mrs. 
Bagby, in Brazil. He expected to be there two 
years, then return to spend his last days in Temple. 
His letters have shown that he longed to be back) 
and it is probable, had he lived, he would have re- 
turned before the first year was out. 

His death brings deepest sorrow to all hearts; and our minds pic- 
ture him as he went about comforting, helping and encouraging those 
who were cast down. He is sadly missed; yet long years from now, 
perhaps forever, there will be alive the influences which he exerted 
while with us. 

Since 1892, Dr. Luther lived in Temple with his daughter. During 
this time he accomplished his dearest design, — that of clearing the 
debt on Luther Memorial Chapel. This accomplished, he resigned the 
pastorate. 




Dr. J. H. Luther 



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He has gone to his reward and has realized the hope expressed 
in a poem which he wrote only a short time before his death, when he 
learned cf the death of a little friend: 

"Not far are we from where the loved ones are; 

The shadow ever trembles on the hearth; 
But fringed with golden light, it becomes me 

And all the group that lingers here, to look 
Beyond the troubled tide to fairer climes. 

I cannot weep; Heaven seems so near to me; 
And life below seems but the twilight glow 

Of all that Christ fortold and prophets dreamed. 

Farewell, my boy; soon on the river's bank m . , 

And neath the tree cf life, we too will meet." * 

^he remains of Dr. Luther were brought from Brazil in I9U8, ana 
..is funeral was held in Alma Reeves Chapel. 

MRS. MARY FERGUSON. 

Our beloved, sweet Christian friend, Mrs. Mary Ferguson camo 
Lo make Baylor College her home, after the death of her husband. 
She was tenderly cared for by loving friends until her death in 1914. 
Impressive services were held for her in Alma Reeves Chapel. She and 
her husband rest together in the Belton cemetery. Ferguson Hall is 
named for these good friends. 

MRS. MARTHA REBECCA HIGDON. 

Mrs. Higdon was a most loyal friend and help- 
er. For forty years she was one of Baylor's most 
loyal patrons. All her daughters and grandaugh- 
ters are graduates of Baylor College. She was a most 
beautiful Christian character, and a real leader 
in every interest of the Baptist women's work at 
Lampasas, Texas, up to the time of her death. As 
she was strong in mind, sympathetic, and efficient 
Mrs. Martha as a manager, her influence will be felt always for 

Rebecca Higdon good 

EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMORIAL REPORT GIVEN ON CHARTER 

DAY — 1918. 

Among our honored dead are numbered Dr. Horace Clark, Mr. 
B. S. Fritzgerald, Col. W. W. Fontaine, Dr. E. H. Wells, and Dr. W. A. 
Wilson, — all of whom were, at some time president of Baylor College; 
Colonel C. C. Slaughter, organizer of the system of correlated Baptist 
schools of Texas; Mrs. Harriet Fritzgerald, Mrs. Rachel Barry Stuart 
and Mrs. Fannie Breedlove Davis, each of whom were prominent worn 
en and Baylor College daughters; Miss Annie May Williamson, Miss 
Evangeline Pond, Mrs. Juliet Bozeman Touchstone, Miss Luta Walk- 
er, Mrs. Mary Miller Schnelle, Mrs. Mary Richardson Stewart, Miss 
Beulah Robbins, Mrs. Nettie Joslin Kerr, Miss Ruby Adamson, Mrs. 
Bernice Barclay Whitney, Miss Eileen Russell, Miss Bessie StovaB, 
Miss Lillie Glenn, Mrs. Ophelia Matthews Turner, Mrs. Ida Mae De 
Steiger Wilson, Mrs. Lula Hiter Kimball, and Miss Lillie Wilson Wado, 
many of whom died during the influenza epidemic. 

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HARVEY CARROLL SMITH. 

Carroll, the son of Reverend M. V. Smith, who 
more than any other person deserves the honor of 
locating Baylor College in Belton, was buried from 
Alma Reeves Chapel in 1918. Twenty years ago, 
the Baptist Memorial church in Temple was org;: 
nized by Dr. John Hill Luther, who was for thirteen 
years president of Baylor College. Twelve years 
later, Brother Harvey Carroll Smith provided the 
means, planned and directed the building of the new 
church on a new location. A fitting memorial ser- 
vice was held in 1920, and was conducted by Dr. L. 
R. Scarborough, when this Memorial Church of Temple, 
from debt and dedicated. 




Rev. Harvey 
Carroll Smith 



was freed 




Mrs. Georgia Townsend 
Hensley 



MRS. GEORGIA TOWNSEND HENSLEY. 

Mrs. Georgia Townsend Hensley died December 
10, 1918, at Dallas, Texas. We cannot mention all 
in the long list that were victims of that dreaded 
influenza epidemic, but we give special mention of 
dear Georgia because of her rarely sweet, unselfisii 
life while a student at Baylor College; and because 
of her triumphant victorious death. After singing 
the beautiful song, "We will Sing His Praise in 
Glory," all the way through with her mother, her 
sweet consecrated spirit left this world, just as the 
last words of the praise song were ended. 



FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. 

On Wednesday, June 25, 1919, the gentle, but 
heroic spirit of Reverend W. J. David passed from 
earth to Heaven. Brother David was born at 
Meridian, and was educated in Mississippi College 
and Crozier Theological Seminary. In 1875 he went 
to Africa as the first Missionary sent to that dark 
continent by the Southern Baptist convention since 
the Civil War; the work in Africa having been 
abandoned during the war. 




Miss Nannie David 



He located at Lagos and had charge of the 
mission work at that important port and also at 
Abeokuta. Dr. B. L. Lockett, who is now in charge of these stations, 
says: Brother David accomplished an enduring work in Africa. He 
erected the best church buildings that the Baptists have in that country: 
and established schools and churches that are still doing a great 
work. 

After fifteen years of arduous labors in Africa, Brother David's 
health failed, and he was compelled to return to his home land. 

Miss Nannie David, his daughter, goes to take up the work he 
laid down. 



Page one hundred and eighty-six 




Dr. R. C. Buckner. 



DR. R. C. BUCKNER. 

As soon as the death of Father Buckner flashed over the state, a 
memorial service was planned in Baylor College. It was held on the 
thirteenth. As an institution, we felt very close to Dr. Buckner and 
the Orphan's Home, and we will keenly miss him. Dr. Hardy said that 
in his judgement there had been men greater along single lines, but 
none greater in so many things that are truly worth while. 

Dr. Buckner's work in connection with the Orphan's Home stands 
out so significantly, that his many activities along other lines are fre- 
quently overlooked. He took a leading part in the National Prison 
Association; and through his wise leadership a great deal has been 
accomplished toward a saner and more humane treatment of prisoners. 
His life work has been given us in book form so we need not attempt 
any further account here. 

GERALDINE DAVIS. 

Geraldine Davis died at Baylor College on November 15, 1919. 
She was loved by all who knew her, and her death saddened all the 
Baylor students and the faculty. The memorial services were deeply 
impressive. 

Following the death of Miss Davis, the most gracious revival we 
have ever known was held in Baylor College. 



Page one hundred and eighty-seven 




Miss Grace McBride 



MISS GRACE McBRIDE. 

Taken from the Royal Service in August, 1919, 
Miss Grace McBride, our patriot nurse, died heroic- 
ally at her post. 

When sickness and sorrow began their deadly 
work as agencies of the evil one, God, in His tender 
compassion began His ministry of healing. In God's 
plan, our bodies were to be clean, strong, and well- 
kept; a fit dwelling place for His Spirit. Ignorance 
of His Word and plan, and our persistency in sin 
have resulted in sin-cursed diseases and impure 
bodies. 



Miss McBride went to Chattanooga, Tennessee, from Mansfield, 
Ohio, about ten years ago. While there she followed her profession as 
trained nurse, for she was now a graduate of Bellvue Hospital, New 
York City. But all the while she felt the call to go to the foreign 
field. Thus, when the State W. M. U. offered a scholarship to the 
Training School in Louisville, Miss McBride was selected as the one 
for the place. 

After she had been there two years, she went back to New York 
Citj to take a post graduate course. When she had finished there, 
she w'as sent by the Southern Baptist Convention Board as a Medical 
Missionary to China where she did a most wonderful work as head of 
the Dr. Agus Hospital. Later the call came for nurses to go to Siberia; 
and feeling that the call was for her, Miss McBride received a leave 
cf absence from the board and enlisted as a Red Cross Nurse. 

While on the way there, she was stricken with typhus fever and 
died on the train, December the twenty-fourth, 1918. Her body was laid 
to rest on Christmas Day beneath the frozen snow of Russia. 

The life of Miss Grace McBride is one of the most beautiful and 
self-sacrificing I have ever known. While waiting here for her call 
to China, she was always busy about the Master's work and gave liber- 
ally to the cause. 

While in China, she pledged enough of her small salary to pay for 
a native missionary. I am sure she heard the master say, "Well done" 
when she entered the Gate of that New City. 

MRS. LEE SHANNON, 

Chatanooga, Tenessee. 

AT WACO — 1919. 

In the year 1919, at Baylor University, Waco, an impressive me- 
morial service was held in honor of the storm victims. The school paid 
its last respects to Professor Hoffman and Miss Eschol Taylor of the 
University College of Fine Arts. 

Col. J. Z. Miller, president of the Belton National Bank, died July 
11, 1920. While he was not a Baptist, he has always proved himself 
a true friend of the College. In the early days of Belton, he was 
treasurer of the College. 

Since this book was started, Mrs. Winnie Goodwin McCraw, class 
of 1866, and Mrs. Cora Spurlin Crook, of the 1908 class, have died. The 
last thing that Mrs. McCraw did was to send pictures of herself and 
daughter, Winnie McCraw Swearengen, for this book. 

Page one hundred and eighty-eight 



Memorials 




For ages past, man has observed the custom of commemorating 
the lives of their loved ones. In the very earliest times we find men 
erecting monuments of marble or brass, and building temples to the 
mlmm-y of their dead. This, we regard as a beautiful custom; and 
one that mankind will, in one way or another, continue to observe. 

But let us look at these monuments of marble and statues of brass 
The marble has perished, and the brass is effaced by time lhese 
costly temples have crumbled to dust, and nothing remains by which 
we can continually be reminded of the lives of those who have gone 
before us. 

However, if we would perpetuate the memory, we must work on 
immortal minds, and thus engrave on these tablets something that will 
live through all eternity. It is those people whose lives have benetittea 
our own that are held dear in our memory- Thus it is, that the memoi - 
ial that does the most good for mankind will be the most lasting. Al- 
ways, these names will be associated with the noble work which, 
through them, has been accomplished. And they who have thus com- 
memorated the lives of their dear daughters, are erecting monuments 
for themselves that will be held in mind long after they have lett tnese 
earthly realms. 

Some examnles of the most lasting and useful 
memorials are given by Mrs. Carey McNelly Wroe 
of Austin, Texas; Mr. B. N. Boren of Dallas, Texas; 
Mr. T. B. Smith of Cleburne, Texas. Mrs. Wroe has 
given a memorial scholarship for her daughter, 
Irene McNelly, who entered Baylor in 1884, and 
remained through 1885, near the close of which 
year she died. This scholarship will always be a 
blessing to some girl who is anxiously striving for 
an education. 

Miss Julia Boren entered Baylor in 188 6 and Miss Irene McNelly 
remained until the year 1891. She died in 189?. 
Her father has mdae her life memorable by giving a scholarship in her 
name. 

Miss Effie Smyth entered school in 1888 and continued until her 
death in 1892. Her father has established her memory in the hearts 
by presenting to the Royall Academia Socity a beautiful library case, 
and each year giving to this society, fifty dollars worth of books. It 
is the plan of this society to build upon this foundation by the annual 
contributions of active and honorary members and friends. We com- 
mend to other friends of education, this method of raising enduring 
monuments to their beloved dead. 

The name of Reverend M. V. Smith will always 
call to our minds a noble life of self-sacrifice and 
loving kindness. Though his life was exemplary 
in every way, we are more particularly concerned 
with his life in connection with the college. He was 
a member of the Board of Trustees, and in that 
capacity, he lived in earnest zeal to bless and give 
his best to the lives of others. He has been called 
to his reward; but his memory will ever dwell in our 
hearts. The Alumnae Association, has paid a last- 
ing tribute to his memory by raising a five thous- 
and dollar memorial fund. This fund is enabling 

many girls to gain an education; and, though he is no longer here, the 

work of Dr. M. V. Smith still goes on. 




Rev. M. V. Smith 



Page one hundred and eighty-nine 



LILLY REED. 

A dear patient little sufferer who's sixteen 
years were lent to brighten the home, where she was 
so tenderly loved and cared for, passed on to her 
Heavenly Home in 1900. 

She left a small sum in her bank which was 
given by her mother with which to begin a memorial 
fund in her name. This fund is being increased 
from time to time; and while dear little Lilly has 
left her body of suffering and is now enjoying the 
glories of that better world, her short life will con- 
tinue to bless others through the use of the fund 
knowu as "The Lilly Reed Scholarship." 

This mother's example is worthy of emulation. How 
is an immortal life trained for service, than marble that 
with time. 




Lilly E 



much 
must 



better 
perish 



CHRISTINA HATHAWAY. 

"Come unto me and I will give you rest" was the Savior's summons 
to our dear schoolmate, Christina. 

Through an illness of three weeks she suffered long and con- 
stantly, but though weary, worn and thin, she could still lift her feeble 
voice and say, "Jesus and I walk hand in hand." She was consecrated 
to God, and he gave her His gift to bless, in her short life, all with 
whom she came in contact. Why did she have to leave us? Even 
the wish of a fond and loving father, "Would that I could die in her 
place," could not stay the loved one's flight. In God's word is all 
strength found: "All things work together for good to them that 
love the Lord." Her Savior who had gone on before her had prepared 
for her a home in Heaven, and called her to receive a crown richly set 
with the gems of virtue, love, faith and obedience. Her whole charac- 
ter is pictured in her last words: "Don't cry father, I love you, but no 
one can come between me and my Savior." God's hand touched her 
and she slept. 

THE E. G. TOWNSEND BIBLE EUND. 

Miss Grace Reed, daughter of Ida Lockhart Reed of class of 1880, 
sent one hundred dollars July, 1920, for the E. G. Townsend Bible 
Chair. She gave it in memory of her mother who died recently 






Miss Eula Ham 



Miss Birdie Harris 



Mrs. Willie Boyc! 
and her daughter 
Annie Boyd Oliver 




Miss Minnie 
Cochran 



Page one hundred and ninety 



REMINISCENCES 



FROM THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. R. C. BURLESON, WHO 
WAS TEN YEARS PRESIDENT OF BAYLOR COLLEGE. 

It was November 19, of the year 185,4, while filling the pastorate 
cf the Independence Church, in connection with his duties as President 
of the University, that Dr. Burleson administered the ordinance of bap- 
tism to General Sam Houston. 

When it was announced that General Houston was to receive the 
ordinance at this place, some mischievous boys went the night before 
and filled the Baptistry with mud and tree tops. The sexton went 
down in the morning to see that the pool was in order, came back very 
much distressed, and reported to Dr. Burleson that the baptistry was 
full of mud, and that it could not be removed in time for him to use it 
that evening. "Very well," he calmly replied, "I will outgeneral these 
mischievous boys from the country, and baptize the General in Little 
Rocky" 

J. T. Hairston and 
Harry Haynes, the two 
gentlemen seen in the 
picture of the place 
where General Houston 
was baptized, were pres- 
ent as boys, and both 
eye-witnesses to the 
baptismal scene, over 
sixty - six years ago. 

It was no ordinary 
occasion. No man in the 
United States, North or 
South, was more in the 
public eye than General 
Houston. He was twice 
President of the Republic, after the liberty of the people had been 
achieved, and twice Governor after the State was admitted into the 
Union, and served also three terms as Representative of the people in 
the United States Senate. 

A more lovely place could not be found in all Texas in which to 
administer the ordinance of baptism to this old hero, patriot, statesman 
and humble Christian. 

POST OAK CHAPEL. 

(A Texas Rural School Sixty Y r ears Ago.) 

E. H. Wells. 

The institution was co-educational. None was 
ever more orderly, or did more efficient work, dur- 
ing the eighteen months of the writer's sojourn 
there. It was embryo university after the Burleson 
type. During the third term (1860), pupils came 
from the outlying settlements, and anything was 
taught from kindergarten up to the classics and any 
branch of mathematics desired. Of course, there 
were many classes, with one little teacher of mani- 




Pool Where General Sam Houston Received the 
Ordinance of Baptism. 




Dr. E. H. Wells 



Page one hundred and ninety-one 



fold type in charge. The daily sessions were long, and the pupils en- 
joyed the advantage of more personal contact with the teacher. Many 
things he supplied by his own workmanship, making outline maps, 
a neat terrestial globe fully mounted, and a serviceable electrical ma- 
chine with Leyden jar and other elements. 

The text books were of the best in use in the East, ordered main- 
ly from agents in New Orleans. The school house was neat, of care- 
fully hewn logs; seats and desks plain, but serviceable. It was the age 
of slate and sponge instead of tablets. 

Term examinations were public and oral, which is much more 
searching and as fair as written ones — though possibly not so desirable 
in the advanced grades. 

During the last term we maintained a school paper entitled "The 
Post Oak Leaf." 

May 1, 1860, was a notable day. The teacher had prepared an 
elaborate coronation ceremony. Carrie Taylor, a beautiful girl, was 
crowned queen in most approved style, with knights, ladies of honor, 
heralds, pages and all other concomitants of royalty. Appropriate 
songs for children, selected from the best school singers, were effec- 
tively rendered. A great throng of people, who were gathered from 
settlements remote, were held under a spell of attraction. After an 
'ample dinner on the grounds," all went away delighted. 




Old State Capitol. 

Records," then "Our B's." 
ship by "The Baylorian,"- 



WOMEN'S MISSIONARY 
UNION. 

At the Baptist State Conven- 
tion in 1880, the meeting of the 
women was held in the Old 
State Capitol at Austin. Here 
the women's work with twelve 
societies was organized, aux- 
iliary to the Texas Baptist 
State Convention. 

COLLEGE MAGAZINE. 

To Dr. E. H. Wells belongs 
the honor of founding a Baylor 
College magazine at Belton 
which was first known as "The 
These were followed later under his leader- 
-the best name yet for a Baylor magazine or 
paper, — to be followed in 1918 by "The United Statements." 

There are, in the college library, four copies of Dr. Well's beautif vA 
poem entitled, "Beneath the Star of Bethlehem." This lovely Christ- 
mas poem in Miltonic style, so adequeately shows the Christ-like spirit 
of Dr. Wells. The little volume is dedicated to his wife, Mrs. Annie 
Lawrence Wells, whom to know, is to love. This beautiful woman, the 
mother of one of our Baylor teachers, — Miss Nita Wells, — is a veritable 
college mother to many of the faculty; and to all she is a holy bene- 
diction. 

FIRST CLASS TO GRADUATE AT BELTON. 

Extracts from a letter written by Mrs. Lula 
Roberts Johnson, who finished school in 1887, with 
the first college class to graduate at Belton. She 
was a Junior at Independence, and is the only mem- 
ber of her class now living. She writes: 

"In Baylor I was taught 'Shaw's History of 
English and American Literature,' and the class 
committed to memory that passage which explained 
what English Literature stood for. I have learned 
many things since and have forgotten them, but this Mrs Lula 

I Cannot forget! Roberts Johnson 




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one hundred and ninety-two 



"The English Literature has for its most distinctive mark the re- 
ligious sense of duty. It represents a people striving through success- 
ive generations to find out the right and do it; to root out the wrong, 
and labor ever onward for the love of God." 

"It has been thirty-five years since I committed this to memory, so 
I must have studied very hard when I was at Baylor." 

VISIT OF MISSIONARIES FROM CHINA. 

(Note from January Baylor B's.) 

In 1888 Reverend J. M. Joiner and his wife, late missionaries to 
China, visited Professor P. H. Eager. But the enjoyment of their visit 
was not limited to relatives; for they stormed our hearts, and we were 
led away willing captives. 

Mrs. Joiner is a bright and charming speaker, leading her audi- 
ence from one subject to another with such ease that one may easily 
fancy that he is making a personal visit with the "Heathen Chinese." 
Never were two more enjoyable evenings spent in Baylor than those 
on which she addressed the girls. The missionary society was indeed 
fortunate in having her speak to them on two occasions. 

CELEBRATING MARCH 2, 1898. 

An oyster supper at the Cottage Home was then an annual celebra- 
tion. Dr. and Mrs. Wilson, Grace and Miss Herring were with us. Af- 
ter supper we remained in the dining room where we had music, and 
recitations, all of which were filled with wit and mirth. 

We could hardly believe our own eyes when Miss Elli Moore, led 
to the floor by Dr. Wilson, recited "in latest style," "Phoebe Hall." 
If surprised at this, we were astonished when Dr. Wilson rendered, with 
all grace and dignity, "Lisping Will's Kissing Curly-headed Susan." 

What a grand and glorious school it is, where, between teacher 
and pupil, there is a constant personal intercourse and interchanging 
of merry words! With happy hearts we went to our rooms, wishing 
each succeeding class a pleasant March second. 



WEDDING ANNIVERSARY — 
NOVEMBER 7, 1900. 

Through the "Baylor B's," we 
desire to express our sincere 
thanks to the faculty and stu- 
dents of Baylor College and to 
other friends who united in the 
presentation of the beautiful 
gifts and messages of love which 
contributed to the happiness of 
our anniversary. 





Dr. W. A. 
Wilson 



Mrs. W. A. 
Wilson 



This tribute was to us the 
more beautiful, since it came from those who were, with the excep- 
tion of Dr. and Mrs. Maiden, strangers to the scenes of our early mar- 
ried life. While the day was to us a memorial of other scenes and 
faces, it was a pleasure to thus be made to feel that we are still among 
friends, whose many acts of kindness bring us into tender heart- 
touch with those among whom our lot has been cast. 

— Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilson. 



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GOLDEN JUBILEE. 

18 95 closed the first half century of Baylor history- In June of 
that year, the friends, patrons, ex-students, and Alumnae assembled in 
the halls of Baylor College to celebrate her Golden Jubilee. Those 
fifty years, viewed at their close, seemed resplendant with glory and 
achievement. It was fitting that many Baylor daughters placed gol:l 
and other gifts on the altar of their Alma Mater. It was at this Golden 
Jubilee that Miss Elli Moore (now Mrs. Townsend) presented "Our 
Baylor," a history of the first fifty years of Baylor College. Dr. G. W. 
Truett delivered the Baccalaureate sermon for this occasion. 

The following is taken from the Golden Jubilee address which was 
delivered by Mrs. Townsend: 

Now that Baylor's long, dark night of debt paying and heart 
breaking struggles are past, with her host of friends, with the ever 
increasing population of the state, with her admirable central location. 
with her enlarged equipment, her opportunity is ever widening and 
her responsibility ever increasing. 

God is raising up princely givers who will equip her to do the 
work laid upon her. As long as there is one girl anywhere who wants 
to come, a place will be made for her. 

Not to endow now would dishonor the precious memories and as- 
sociations of over fifty-five years of sacrifice and heroism. It would 
be dishonor to the dead and treason to the cause for which they died. 

Oh thou beloved Baylor, child of early love and enterprise bound 
to our hearts by all the ties of youth and the sacred memories of the 
past, we must not fail to come to thy rescue in this hour of need. He, 
who in His hand holds all power and might, is still looking down upon 
thee. He guided thee through all thy early struggles and through the 
hardest years when brave hearts were sickened by the panic cry of war, 
surely He will not leave thee nor forsake thee now. 

Let us write the inscription in letters of faith, hope and purpose 
en these classic walls; Baylor Female College live forever! 

Stand unshaken on your rock foundations, and tremble never 
till you feel the vibration of the resurrection trumpet. Here, O foun- 
dation rocks, rest in your trenches, digged by love and sacrifice and 
piety, till Jesus comes. Catch, O walls, every greeting kiss of the morn- 
ings, and lingering caresses of the sunsets, until you are glorified in 
the light of His second coming and when earth is startled with the 
cry: 

"Behold the Bridegroom cometh." 
From these walls may a host of wise virgins go out to meet 
Him. 

SILVER CELEBRATION FOR 
COTTAGE HOME. 

When the Cottage Home was 

twenty-five years old, on Thanks- 
giving Day, 1917, we had a Silve:' 

Celebration. Many beautiful 

messages were read from former 

students; and one caused the 

founding of "The Gale Harper 

Nelson Memorial Fund," which 

later we hope will be increased 

to twenty-five hundred dollars. 
Gale Harper's mother sent all the money her little son had, and her 
loving appreciation and devotion, which was so beautifully expressed, 
was thus made lasting. By a unanimous vote of the students, it was 
decided that Baylor College women would have their children to send 
offerings to this fund on every Thanksgiving. 





Mrs. Lillian 
Mart in Nelson 



Gale Harper 
Nelson 



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one hundred and ninety-five 




SOME COLLEGE WEDDINGS. 

Miss Addie Grimmette, a member of the graduating class of 1900, 
was married, standing in the same spot where, two hours before, sh? 
received her diploma. She was married to Mr. Luther Truett of Mc- 
Kinney. Dr. G. W. Truett, brother to the groom, performed the 
ceremony. Her oldest daughter is now a Baylor College student. 

Mrs. Townsend has worked with seven Baylor College Presidents, 
and her wedding ceremony was performed by two of them: Drs. 
Luther and Wilson, in the Luther Chapel, in 1899. 

Mrs. Ely was married in Luther Chapel in 1901, by Dr. Wilson, 
President of Baylor, assisted by Dr. R. K. Maiden, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church. 



On Wednesday, Dec- 
ember 2 2, 1908, at high 
noon in the Baylor par- 
lors, the wedding 
Miss Eva Whitford of 
Washington, D. C. and 
Dr. Thomas S. Lovette 
of Chicago, took place 
in the presence of the 
faculty, the pupils of 
the two, and a few inti- 
mate friends. The deco- 
rations were simple; flowers and tropical plants being used with charm- 
ing effect. 

Mrs. T. S. Lovette, formerly Eva Whitford of Washington, D. C, 
a well known church and concert singer, came to Baylor College in 
1908, to become head of the vocal department. Here she met Dr. 
Lovette and they were married. The late Dr. W. A. Wilson, who was 
then president, officiated. 

Miss Ollie Cochran of the class of 190 9 was married to W. T. 
Davis. The ceremony was performed by Dr. A. J. Barton, and is the 
only wedding that has taken place in the Alma Reeves Chapel. 

A most beautiful wedding and one of far reaching interest occur- 
red on Saturday morning, December 18, 1909, at ten thirty o'clock, at 
the home of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Wells of Belton, when their daughter, 
Agnes Lillian, became the bride of Mr. David Little Schofield of Geor- 
gia. 

Martha Schwinn Jordan was married at Baylor the day after she 
received her diploma. She now lives near Belton and it is her cus- 
tom to come to the college to help in times of special strain. 




Mrs. Thomas S. Lovette 



Dr. Thomas S. Lovette 



Page one hundred and ninety-six 




Mrs. Ruth Stribling Fowler. 



RUTH STRIBLING FOWLER. 

Twelve years ago as Mr. Townsend 
and I were returning home from a 
long vacation trip spent in traveling 
over West Texas, we passed through 
Llano and met with some of Mr. J. C. 
Stribling's relatives, who invited us 
to go with them to Mr. Stribling's 
beautiful ranch home, several miles 
out in the country. We gladly accep- 
ted the invitation for we had known 
of Mr. Stribling for many years, be- 
sides the wish to renew our childhood 
acquaintance, we wanted to solicit his 
only daughter, for a Baylor College 
student. We were royally entertained 
in that beautiful ranch home and the 
daughter, Ruth, with her friend, Lo- 
leat Ligon, came to Baylor in the fall 
of 1908. 

We never had a more contentions dutiful student than Ruth 
Stribling, but alas, she married just before her graduation She was 
impressed to be a Foreign Missionary and never ^emed satisfied 
about giving up the foreign field until she decided to pay the salaiy 
of some other Baylor girl in the foreign field to take her place. 

A TRIO OF WEDDINGS. 

June 1919, is the anniversary of many weddings, but none are of 
so great interest to us as those that were performed on the twentieth, 
twenty-third, and twenty-fourth days of this month. 

On the twentieth of June, 1919, Miss Grace Wilson and Mr. Edgar 
Monteith were married, and Dr. R. K. Maiden performed the ceremony 
Miss Wilson had graduated in the class of 1907, and was a teacher ot 
piano in Baylor the session preceding her marriage. She, more than 
any other, is Baylor's very own. She came when a "wee lassie in 
1896, with her father and mother to make her home in Baylor College. 

June 23, 1919, Miss Sara Whitfield and Mr. Boyd were united in 
marriage. Dr. E. G. Townsend performed the ceremony. Sarah and 
all her family are graduates of Baylor College. 

The next day, June 24, 1919, Dr. E. G. Townsend performed the 
marriage ceremony of Dr. R. K. Maiden and Miss Martha Dowell. Miss 
Dowell was for twenty-five years closely associated with Baylor Col- 
lege as student and teacher. She still holds the very important office 
of president of the Alumnae Association, which place she has held tor 
many years. Dr. Maiden was, for five years the beloved pastor of the 
Belton Baptist Church. 

The wedding bells have been busy for the Jubilee Class. Three of 
its members have already married: namely, Clara Carter to Mr. C. C. 
Davis, Effie Satterwhite to Mr. Charles Henry, and Ermine Partam co 
Mr. William Stewart. 



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one hundred and ninety-seven 



AS OUR FRIENDS SEE OUR NEEDS. 

MRS. F. S. DAVIS 
President of the W. M. U. of the Baptist Convention of Texas. 

Baylor College has achieved a destiny almost unparalleled in the 
history of our separate schools. She has a record bright and lumi- 
nous, and today, seems to those of us who are watching her career with 
abiding and abounding interest, to have entered upon the threshold of 
enlarged usefulness and grandeur. But, my co-workers, in order that 
this time-honored and beloved institution may more abundantly enter 
the wider and higher fields of learning, we must girdle it anew with our 
unquestioned love and loyalty, and lift it up beyond the quagmire of 
that material enslavement which menaces her future career. We must 
give an adequate Library Building. 

MRS. HENRY B. FALL. 
Past President Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, Houston, Texas. 

If we are to have a great nation of women we must have great 
schools in which to educate them. We must have a truly great Chris- 
tian school for young women where the controlling power will be ex- 
erted for great and lasting good. In Texas we have a Baptist College 
for women where character is formed under the finest influences. Our 
Baptist women, by their loyal support, have helped to make Baylor 
College such a school. We must urge the making of a better Library 
Building. 

MRS. R. H. HICKS. 

A. wonderful opportunity is laid at the door of the people of our 
state. Texas is a great state with a wonderful future and will cer- 
tainly do a noble part by the greatest college for Baptist women in the 
southwest. The present need of Baylor College is an adequate Li- 
brary Building. 

Baylor has a noble history. Sue has made for herself, during 
these seventy-five years, a splendid loyal constituency and a place in 
the hearts of the people. She is rightfully the greatest college for Bap- 
tist women in the southwest. 

ELLA YELVINGTON ELY. 

It is too costly, and life is too short, to learn by first hand experi- 
ence how to make our lives count for the most. Will not the Baptist 
women of our State equip Baylor College with a good Library Building? 
A four year's course here is equal to many years of experience. If we 
wish to have the greatest women in this, our greatest State, we must 
have several other great buildings, similar to the three that have been 
given us, this Jubilee Year. There is a special and peculiar reason 
why Baylor College should have a great Library. What a memo- 
lal for some one this could be! 

MRS. WILLIAM REEVES. 

As a Texas woman, born and bred under the shadow of "Old Bay- 
lor at Independence," and who has opportunity for observation, may 
I say a word for Baylor College. 

Women of Texas: Our duty is to her, just as surely as it is to the 
heathen in Africa or the poor in our city slums. Will God hold u^ 
guiltless if we fail to do our best to supply the needs of Baylor College 
so that no school, North, East, South or West can offer anything better? 
Let us rise in the strength of our God and make of her an institution 
where the girl of one talent and the girl of ten talents shall be attracted 
and taught alike to glorify her Redeemer and King. Shall we allow 
this our one school for women alone, to go on suffering for a commo- 
dious Library Building. 

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THE DIAMOND RING AND ITS MISSION. 

Two years ago, at the Baptist General Convention, a diamond ring 
was put into the contribution box for Buckner Orphans Home. The 
girls at the Ely-Pepper Hall bought the ring. The girl who has made 
the greatest improvement during the past term is permitted to wear 
this ring for the next term. 

THE GREATEST GIFT TO THE COTTAGE HOME — 1919. 

Sunday afternoon, October 5, an interesting meeting of all the 
students and many friends of Ely-Pepper Hall was held. At that meet- 
ing the gratitude of all present was expressed to our Heavenly Father 
for impressing our dear friend, Mr. J. C. Stribling of Llano, with the 
great need, and privilege of contributing $50,000.00 for a new dormi- 
tory to be erected at once. 

TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR PRIZE. 

To the member of the Junior Class of Baylor College who most 
deserves the honor, twenty-five dollars is to be given annually by Dr. 
W. E. Redford. 

We shall be delighted always to have Dr. W. E. Redford visit our 
school and help decide who is most worthy of this honor. . We greatly 
appreciated his visit in June, and will always remember the message 
which he delivered in the dining room. 

A VISIT TO ROCKDALE. 

An occasion of much interest was the evening 
on which a few friends gathered around the fireside 
of Mrs. Maggie Hicks to talk over "old times." In 
referring to school days. Mrs. Hicks discovered that 
she had, in her home that day, a Baylor girl repre- 
senting every ten years from 1850 to 1880. Those 
former Baylor girls, now known as Mrs. Elli M. 
Townsend, Mrs. Julia Harris Mdver, Mrs. Hick's 
mother, and Mrs. Maggie Hail Hicks . 

Mrs. Maggie 

Similar house parties could be held at many hermother S 

places all over Texas, — especially at Associational daughter,' 

or Conventional meetings. granddaughter 

MISS ANNIE JORDAN. 

Miss Annie Jordon, who taught in California and Nevada and has 
helped a year at the Ely-Pepper Hall, is now teaching in Houston. She 
was a valiant worker in getting up the banquet for the Baylor League. 

SOME VISITORS DURING WINTER 1919. 

The College has been fortunate this year in having visits from 
several distinguished missionaries who are at home on their furloughs. 
Mr. Saunders gave a very fine illustrated lecture on his work in China 
which made the work vivid and real to everyone present. 

Mr. and Mrs. Sallee, also of China, spent two days with us and gave 
inspiring, helpful talks about their work in China and the wonderful 
opportunities that are ours in that great country- 

Dr. and Mrs. Bagby and their son, Albert, spent most of the Christ- 
mas holidays in our midst and told many interesting facts about Bra- 
zil, their adopted country. They brought to Baylor last September 
their daughter, Miss Helen, and a little Brazilian girl, Adelia M attar, 
who are an inspiration to the entire school. They are preparing them- 
selves for missionaries and are letting their lights shine as they go 
about their daily school duties. 




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A Chinese girl, Annie Lowe, has recently come to us, making 
the twelfth nationality that is represented in our school. This is in- 
deed another great opportunity for Baylor College. Miss Lowe intends 
to finish her literary education; take a medical course and go as a doc- 
tor to Canton, China, the native home of her parents. 





Mrs. Lillie James 
Myer 



Miss Annie Laurie 
Sykes 






Mrs. Stella Jones 
Christian 



Mrs. Florance 
Long Fall 



Mrs. Annie 
Breaker Court 



BAYLOR COLLEGE WOMEN AT HOUSTON. 

Mrs. Rachel Barry Stuart and Mrs. Harriet Davis Fitzgerald were 
for years before their death, the most influential leaders among the 
women of the First Baptist Church at Houston. Also, two presidents, 
Dr. Horace Clark and Dr. B. S. Fitzgerald, made Houston their la?t 
earthly home. Mrs. Florence Long Fall, Mrs. Lillie James Myer, 
Mrs. Stella Jones Christian, Mrs. Annie Breaker Court, and Annie Lau- 
rie Sykes all live and work for religious and civic righteousness in that 
city. Many other Baylor girls are now there as teachers in the public 
schools and workers in places of business. 

As it is in Houston, so it is in our other cities, such as Dallas, San 
Antonio, Ft. Worth, El Paso, Wichita Falls, Waco, Beaumont, Galves- 
ton and Austin. 

MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS — 1919. 

The Baylor College girls sent $10 to pay the tuition of a student 
in the mountain school at Doyle, Tenn., for the spring term. This was 
in response to Mrs. Hattie Baker's appeal in a recent issue of the 
Standard. She has written a most appreciative letter and has given some 
interesting facts about the two preacher boys to whom the money was 
given. 

REVIVAL — NOVEMBER, 1919. 

At the close of the revival services conducted by Dr. Chas. E. 
Maddry, pastor of the University Baptist church at Austin, four hundred 
and thirty girls surrendered their lives to God's service. Dr.Maddrys 
messages were simple, direct, and earnest; and appealed to one's judg- 



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ment as being reasonable; and religion as he presented it, is beautiful. 
At the very first meeting, when the appeal was made to surrender to 
Christ, fifteen made profession. At practically every meeting fol- 
lowing from one to ten or twelve accepted Christ. It seems that the 
recent Consecration services had made a fine spiritual preparation for 
just such a meeting. Everybody was ready for it. As a result of the 
great meeting, fifty-seven have been baptized, and others are waiting 
to be baptized. The religious life of many students was awakened 
and there was not one who did not receive help in some way. 

In America one hundred years ago, only one college student in ten 
professed faith in Jesus Christ. Today about fifty per cent of all col- 
lege students are professed Christians. A hundred years ago there 
was no thought among college students about Christian mission- 
aries. Today there are hundreds planning to spend their lives on the 
missionary field. 

One-half of our present student body — over four hundred — have 
expressed themselves as willing to do the Lord's work in both home 
and foreign fields. 





Miss Pansy 
Woodruff 



Miss Hazel 
Miller 





Miss Beulah 
Dixon 






Miss Zula Sibley 
Publicity Sec'y. 



Mrs. .L.oula 
Bowden 
Sponsor 



Miss Elizabeth 

Sherrill 

Member Student 

League Club. 



OFFICERS OF MINISTERS DAUGHTERS' CLUB. 

This Club Organized With a Membership of Seventy. 

As members of the "Ministers Daughters Club," we are very anx- 
ious to make our organization mean something and accomplish some- 
thing definite. We have taken as our aim the raising of a music 
scholarship each year, to be awarded to some member of the club. We 
realize more and more the importance of music and the vast amount 
of good it does in helping humanity to higher ideals and living. 

The amount of the scholarship will remain indefinite, ranging 
from sixty to one hundred and eighty dollars. In the case of an unus- 
ually talented girl, we might even raise funds enough to help her at- 
tend some famous conservatory of the North or East in order that she 
might be fitted for the largest service that our country offers. 

Certainly a more worthy purpose, the club could not have. To 
the talented girl with an ambition and burning desire to study music, 
yet lacking the means to accomplish her life purpose, this scholarship 
will be an inspiration and a blessing. 



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Through music, as through no other source, the heart and soul oil 
mankind may be reached. As all things in this modern day are accom- 
plished through efficiency and co-operation, so the life that is trained 
and has become efficient in this kind of art, will be capable of proving 
the greatest blessing to the world. 

It is much easier to gain a great desire if the sympathy and help 
of others is given to make the path not so difficult. How very much 
the sympathy and inspiration of others, as well as the financial aid, 
is appreciated, can only be realized by one who has lived through this 
advanced struggle for learning. We solicit the help of our friends in 
this enterprise, especially all former Baylor girls who are daughters 
of ministers. Grand-daughters of preachers and wives of preachers 
are associate members of this club. 

ALUMNAE CUSTODIAN. 

The class of 1919 appointed a custodian for the Alumnae Associa- 
tion. Her duties are to gather and keep in good form all valuable his- 
toric events; to have them bound every four years, and present them 
for publication at the close of the next twenty-five years, at which time 
we will celebrate the Centennial of Baylor College. Miss Lois Pipkin 
of Bryan was elected to this position. She is performing her duty 
faithfully and well. 

All such news notes as the following should be preserved. 

A DISTINGUISHED BAYLOR GIRL. 

Miss Lucile Auten (the versatile) is doing ex- 
cellent work in Abilene and is blossoming forth 
most successfully as an arranger of music for part 
songs and as a composer. She has several composi- 
tions of merit to her credit and her Glee Club is also 
worthy of comment and will be heard in a series of 
concerts in the near future. She spent the summer 
of 1919 studying in New York. Miss L ^ ile Auten 

BAYLOR COLLEGE WAR WORKERS IN WASHINGTON. 

Baylor College furnished its quota when Uncle Sam called for 
clerical aid at the beginning of the recent war. Among the sixty thous- 
and war workers in Washington there were stenographers, typists, 
clerks, and computers, who received either their academic or business 
training, or both, in Baylor College. 

After the seven-hour day in the offices, the same girls often found 
time to spend at least one hour in one of the various Red Cross stations 
in the beautiful capital city. Baylor College was represented at vari- 
ous times by one or more of her_ daughters at Walter Reed Hospital, 
where the soldiers were ever to be cheered as well as cared for. Bay- 
lor war workers were found to be one hundred per cent in the purchas- 
ing of Liberty Bonds. Each one bought just as many bonds as her 
salary allowed after deductions for actual living expenses were mado. 
These ex-Baylor girls were appealingly anxious to give the last bit of 
their efficiency to help win the awful world struggle by close applica- 
tion to all governmental matters passing over their desks each day. 
They were glad to be representatives of their Alma Mater in the vari- 
ous federal offices, where practically every college of our land found 
representation. 

Baylor helped to win the war against Militarism! This experience 
only broadens her usefulness in the war against ignorance and its co- 
horts; for soon these daughters, broadened and having a new view- 
point from contact with public affairs, will return to their home state. 

— Amy Wade. 




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SEMINARY BAYLOR CLUB MEETING. 

On Wednesday afternoon, January 14, at the home of Mrs. Leila 
Routh McKinney, the Baylor College Club of Seminary Hill held its 
first meeting of the year 1920. Most of our fourteen members were 
present, and great enthusiasm was shown in every discussion of Bay- 
lor's needs and problems. It is a sincere pleasure and blessing to have 
Miss Zemma Hare with us since the holidays, and already she is mak- 
ing her beautiful personality felt, not only among Baylor folks, but ail 
other students. In the meeting, greetings were read from Mr. George 
Rosborough and Miss Evelyn Campbell, Dean of Women at Baylor 
College. Plans for the Diamond Jubilee were enthusiastically dis- 
cussed, and it was unanimously agreed that every member should at- 
tend the celebration, if possible. Because several prospective students 
live on the Hill, it was voted to allow them to become associate mem- 
bers of the College Club. Next fall when they go there they will be 
ready to enter into all activities, for they are getting the real Baylor 
.spirit here. The club instructed the corresponding secretary to write 
letters of sympathy to Mrs. Martha Dowell Maiden and Mrs. Grace 
Wilson Montieth, because of their recent bereavement. Daily this 
group of Baylor women of whom seven are already volunteers for spec- 
ial service, are praying that the Lord will call out this year at least 
fifteen Baylor girls elsewhere who will surrender their lives for work 
in any field. Three here expect to go out during 192 0, and others will 
follow later. We rejoice that "unto the uttermost parts of the earth" 
we are being called to go, and carry, along with the good news of the 
Son of Man, the blessed influence of Baylor College, our beloved Alma 
Mater. 

— Minnie Cochran, Secretary. 

MILDRED MIHILLS, CHAIRMAN OF ALUMNAE COM31ITTEE FOR 

JUBILEE CELEBRiVTION. 

January 31, 1920. 
To the Assembled Students and Friends of Baylor College: 

The time agreed upon for the June celebration is the Commence- 
ment season of 1920, the program to extend through two or three days. 
Although each institution will arrange its individual program, it is 
highly desirable that the various schools exchange representatives to 
participate in their celebrations. 

The occasion of our assembling is distinctive in its celebration of 
seventy-five years of the growth of Christian Education in Texas. 
Hence, it is appropriate that the Baylors and the other educational 
institutions of cur denomination dedicate from this crowning year a 
few days to pay homage to the King of Kings, who has made possible 
the victory of Christian Education in our great state. 

EXTRACTS FROM CHARTER DAY r PROGRAM OF 1920. 

Seventy-five years after the Baylors were launched upon the sea 
of faith, we celebrated in a special way, our Charter Day; as this was 
Baylor's real birthday, we give these extracts from the program: 

WELCOME TO THE CLASS OF 1920. 

Significant and glorious is this Charter Day, February 1, 1920. 
This morning our great college mother, our Alma Mater, our own Bay- 
lor celebrates her seventy-fifth birthday. This means that on February 
1, seventy-five years ago this day, Baylor received her charter at the 
hands of the young Republic of Texas, this charter having been pre- 
pared by the immortal Tryon and Judge R. E. B. Baylor. Since it is 
her seventy-fifth birthday, Baylor enters upon her Diamond Jubilee 
celebration. Today, how many daughters of Baylor, rise to call her 
blessed! But on Charter Day the ear of our Alma Mater bends to hear 
words of appreciation and loyalty from her youngest daughters — the 



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Senior Class. Today this dearly loved and loyal class takes its place 
in the ranks of the active Alumnae, and how gladly and lovingly we 
receive them. 

How good to be alive in these dynamic days so full of noble things 
to do. The social unrest of the times is great and there are many 
wrongs to right. How anxious are the other Alumnae that this noble 
class soon to go out into the world, may have the "Strength of ten be- 
cause their hearts are pure," that they may be so rooted and grounded 
in eternal principles that they shall be able to avoid the foolish and 
sinful "isms" of the day, that they may walk with their faces to the 
light. 

One very definite way by which the Alumnae may help Baylor 33 
to give our assistance in every way possible to the Baylor College 
League The object of the league is to foster and make perpetual 
the spirit and ideals of Baylor. This has always been the ambition of 
each loyal Alumnae. How cheering to hearts of Alumnae that now 
this is to be the object of the Student League, composed as it is of all 
those who have ever been students in Baylor. The president of the 
league must be a Baylor graduate and therefore it is the duty and 
privilege of Baylor graduates wherever they are upon the surface of the 
broad earth, each one in her own place and to the full extent of her 
ability, to support the president and to plan for and help strengthen 
the league. The real promoters of international relations are not 
statesmen around green tables in Paris or elsewhere who plan leagues 
of nations so much as our missionaries on the field in foreign lands. 
So each Baylor girl, especially each Alumnae, can be a missionary fur 
Christian education in her own community. "All around us," says 
President Wilson, "are 'hungry minds,' that is minds hungry for a sat- 
isfactory explanation of the right plan of life." 

If on this day, each one of us can catch the vision of the wonders 
and glories and possibilities of Christian Education, and be ardent 
champions of that cause to our dying day, (this is the greatest birth- 
day Baylor has ever celebrated.) Glorious things have been given 
through Baylor to Baylor girls of yesterday and today. Consequently, 
great things are required just at this strategic time. By the Grace of 
God, we shall not be unfaithful in the mighty and glorious tasks com- 
mitted to our hands. 

MRS. MARTHA DOWELL MAIDEN, 

President of Alumnae Association. 

RESPONSE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENIOR CLASS. 

In behalf of the Senior Class of 1920, I accept this honor and as- 
sure you of our appreciation of these words of welcome, encouragement 
and inspiration. It is a peculiar privilege to be a member of this Sen- 
ior Class — the Diamond Jubilee Class — the class which has so much 
to inspire it. 

A MESSAGE FROM MISS DAVID. 

Friends, it gives me great joy to stand before you this morning as 
a Baylor College graduate and as a nurse missionary about to depart 
for Oyo, Nigeria, West Africa. 

On this celebration of our Charter Day, I rejoice that I am one of 
the expected seventy-five missionaries representing Baylor in foreign 
lands. I hope many of you will very soon join me. There are five 
particular reasons that impel me with the desire to give my life for 
Africa: 

(1) The bigness of the field. Africa could hold the entire Uni- 
ted States, all of Europe, India, China, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. 

(2) There are so few people who are willing to go to Africa — 
and think of the opportunities she offers. In Africa there are 95,000,- 
000 Pagans, 17,000,000 Mohammedans, 9,000,000 nominal Christians. 
Among these 9, 000 ,^00 there are less than 1,000,000 Christian com- 
municants. Will you not "come over into Macedonia and help us?" 



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Oh, that we had more with Livingston's spirit — "If I had a thousand 
lives, I'd give them all to Africa." 

(3) The regrets of those who say they once felt God called them 
to special work, but they gave no heed. They say, "I'm saved, but the 
mission of my life was not accomplished." 

(4) The joy of those who, being led by the Spirit, believe they 
are doing the Father's will. 

(5) The still, small voice is ever calling me onward, thus I yield 
to Him. 

I go to Oyo, which is about one hundred and eighty (180) miles 
into the interior, having 1300 feet altitude, and having a population of 
100,000, of whom less than 100 are white people. May each of us as wa 
hear Jesus' words, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to 
every creature," rest on His promise. 

CHARTER DAY ADDRESS — 1920. 

Only one life to live! We all want to make the very most of it, to 
do our best with it. How best shall we plant our lives that they may 
bring the fullest and most richly blessed results? These questions and 
countless similar ones, confront the young woman of today, and de- 
mand an answer. 

The wonderful opportunities to which we, the college trained 
young women, fall heir are counterbalanced by a fearful responsibility, 
for to whom much is given much will surely be required; and young 
people trained in the spiritual atmosphere of a distinctly Christian col- 
lege are expected to do more in real service than young people trained 
in a strictly literary school. And why? Because in our Christian 
educational institutions every effort is made by consecrated teachers 
to bring to us spiritual truths in a thoroughly spiritual atmosphere. 
God and the pec pie in the community where we live will require more 
of us. 

Each of us must determine the answer to the question: What shall 
I do with my life? When we delay consideration of this vitally im- 
portant issue, time slips away in further preparation, in experiment, 
and in useless or misdirected efforts. 

The trouble with nicst of us is that we fail to get the right concep- 
tion of life. We were not brought into the eternal plan for a life of 
ease. Work, untiring, diligent, persistent work is one of the funda- 
mental requirements of a life worth while. 

We were not placed here for whatever we might be able to gain, 
nor were we created for the popularity we might win among our fel- 
lowmen. The seeking of fame is not our intended destiny. These 
things may come to us incidentally, but when we make them the domi- 
nating motives in our lives, a fatal error has been made. No life how- 
ever famous, however much admired of men, was ever a successful 
life unless its motive was the service of mankind for the glory of God. 
Napoleon Bonaparte was famous but never great. Florence Nightin- 
gale became famous by virtue of a life magnificently unselfish, useful 
and therefore great. 

Let us take the words of the Great Teacher, who gave to us in one 
sentence the purpose of His life: "I am among you as one that serveth; 
I came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." 

God created each of us with some definite purpose in view for our 
lives. What a glorious privilege is ours to live our span of three scor* 
and ten in this twentieth century of ours! It is a day of world made 
changes and transformations; a time when nations no longer regard 
themselves as distinct and apart from other nations. A steady unifi- 
cation of the whole life of the world is going on, which, in time, must 
bring about a common world civilization. 

The world of today is an awakened world. The Renaissance 
which was regarded as the mightiest movement which had swayed the 
world to that time, brought a revival of learning, of literature, and of 
man's thought generally. The religious reformation and the political 



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revolution followed in its wake. The French revolution was regarded 
by Thomas Carlyle as the greatest event in the world's history, next to 
the advent of Christ. But the next greatest event was the awakening 
of the non-Christian world, the awakening of one thousand million 
souls. On every hand we see signs of the awakening of great peoples. 
Caste and custom are losing their grip. The whole Orient is awaken- 
ing. The world is crying for lives that have been planned for render- 
ing service. Leadership is demanded, and leaders will be put forward. 
It is ours to see that trained, consecrated lives are given as leaders to 
help guide the affairs of men through this period of unrest and read- 
justment. Perhaps it is with us as it was with that brave young queen 
of old — we have been born into the kingdom for just such a time as this. 
Oh, that we might have the courage that was Queen Esther's, to face 
our responsibilities! 

Young women of Baylor College, let us make the most of our 
lives. Let us expect great things of God, and undertake great things 
for Him. Let us lay on the altar of humanity lives of service, which 
in the light of our opportunities, is but reasonable. Let us resolve to 
make our lives worth while. 

LOIS PIPKIN, 
President of Student League. 

THE YEAR'S REVIEW OF CLASS OF 1920 

Our class of 1920 inherits the accumulation of seventy-five years 
cf education and training. Truly in the language of Tennyson, "We 
are the heirs of all the ages through the foremost ranks of time." Our 
obligation to the future is measureless. We must in proportion to our 
ability bring our devotion, loyalty and gifts to our Alma Mater. 

We have had a great victory in the military world; we are to 
have a still greater victory in the spiritual world. Military victory is 
but half the battle; the crowning victory is the spiritual battle in which 
all denominations are now engaged. A few weeks ago our class did 
earnestly and nobly its part to co-operate in the Seventy-five Million 
Dollar Campaign. It is very remarkable historic fact that the Baptist 
pioneers of Texas organized for education the same year that the 
great Baptist hosts of the Southland organized the Southern Baptist 
Convention. It is no small thing that Baylor College gave her $45,000 
to the Seventy-five Million Dollar Campaign, and our class gave $3,000 
of that amount. 

Future generations are to benefited and blessed in proportion to 
the sense of our responsibility. We must keep ever before us that the 
great material blessings that are ours today will help only according 
to our development spiritually. A test of Christian education is that 
we are neighbors to all the nations of the world. We must respond 
with loving sympathy to the oppressed in Russia and Mexico, to the 
benighted in Asia and Africa. Will we do it? Each must answer for 
herself. As the world war showed America's strength, so the conten- 
tion in congress over the League of Nations has shown us her national 
weakness. We must do our part to show that patriotism and education 
have met together, civilization and missions have kissed each other. 
In this great hour of the world's needs with the privilege of Christian 
education, shouldn't we as individuals and as a class overcome all 
selfishness and co-operate with the great leaders of the world in their 
every undertaking for humanity? 

Not only are we the Diamond Class but the Scholarship Class also. 
In 1916 and 1917 when we were Freshmen we established the Fresh- 
man Scholarship Fund. This consisted of raising two hundred dollars 
that year and the selection of a classmate who could not otherwise 
remain in school and lending the money to her. When conveniem 
she is to pay the money back for some other girl. The Freshman class 
of each year is to raise two hundred dollars and select a worthy girl 



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of their class, thus establishing a permanent loan fund. The Diamond 
Class selected Miss Ovilla Wood, who served as our president until 
the latter part of our junior year, when she left us to graduate with 
the class of 1919. The next scholarship girl comes from the present 
junior class but is a member of the Diamond Class. She also is 
doing the work in less than the required time. The third scholarship 
girl comes from the sophomore class and is Miss Evelyn Dawson, and 
the fourth selected from this year's freshman class is Miss Gladys 
Joseph. ADA CATES. 

HELEN TAFT, PRESIDENT OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE. 

For the women's colleges the financial problem is more serious 1 
than for the men's. A college with several millionaires among its 
graduates can raise a substantial endowment. A woman college grad- 
uate who is a millionaire in her own right is a very rare specimen. We 
have to depend on faith in higher education among wealthy friends of 
the women's colleges, not on our roll of alumnae. Fortunately, we do 
not need so large an endowment as the great men's universities, but wa 
need, all of us, our million or two millions, and we do not believe that 
a country with the ideals and the faith of the United States will leave 
women's colleges to starve. 

ENDOWMENT FEBRUARY, 1920. 
Dr. J. C. Hardy. 

We are all rejoicing over the marvelous progress the college is 
now making along almost every line. It is hardly believable that 
more money is being put into buildings and equipment during this 
seventy-fifth year of the life of the college than during the previous 
seventy-four all combined: and yet this is true. From the close of the 
session in June, 1919. to the opening of the new session in September, 
1920, more than a half million dollars will have been spent in buildings 
and equipment. This will give us a million-dollar plant by the opening 
of the new session next fall. Our standards are constantly being 
raised and our courses of study enlarged and strengthened, our enroll- 
ment is expanding by leaps and bounds. The enrollment during the 
present school year will go far beyond thirteen hundred, with students 
from more than fifteen states and from six foreign countries. 

Of course we need and must have at an early date more buildings, 
such as Fine Arts, Library. Dining Room and Modern Kitchen, Gym- 
nasium, and Infirmarv; yet our supreme need at this time is the be- 
ginning of a substantial endowment. We must keep our college well 
rounded and balanced. Our college now ranks among the best in the 
South in buildings and eauipment and attendance, but in endowment 
at the very bottom. Baylor College has a million-dollar plant, but* 
possesses only $250 in endowment. 

Brother and Sister George A. McGregor of Dallas, daughter and 
son-in-law of Brother W. H. McGee, who was for twenty-five years 
trustee of the college, gave us this $250 a little over two years ago as 
the beginning of an endowment. There is probably not another col- 
lege in America with a million-dollar plant with only $250 endowment. 

The same intelligence and "push" that expanded our buildings 
and equipment and attendance, applied to this problem will get us cor- 
responding expansion in endowment. Let us all see and feel the im- 
portance of this enlargement as we did the other, and the same mighty 
results will follow. Upon recommendation of the President of the 
College, the Board of Trustees, at their meeting on February 3, passed 
the following resolution: 

"Be it resolved by the Board of Trustees of Baylor College that the 
General Education Board of New York be requested to make a gift of 
$150,000 or more to the endowment of Baylor College on condition 
that the college shall raise $300,000 or more for the same purpose. 

Should the request be granted, friends of the college will have a 
definite and inspiring goal toward which to work. But what if the 



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New York Board should decline our request at this time? Then the 
college will need our help more than ever and we will need stamina 
and determination more than ever to do for the college what absolutely 
must be done. Help or no help from anybody except ourselves, let us 
remember the old saying that "the gods help those who help them- 
selves." Let us rejoice if this great gift should come, but let us not 
be discouraged if it does not come. Let it be burned into our very 
hearts, that cost what it will in hard work and personal sacrifice, Bay- 
lor College shall be amply endowed. 

UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY — 1920. 

Mrs. J. C. Muse of Dallas, formerly Kate Cabell, and known es- 
pecially to the Confederate Veterans and the Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy of this state, was in Belton Monday, February 9, and delivered 
her famoub lecture, "The Why of the United Daughters of the Confed- 
eracy ' in the college autditorium, beginning promptly at 8 o'clock. 
Mrs Muse was brought to this city under the auspices of the Baylor 
College chapter of the U. D. C.'s. The proceeds of the lecture were added 
to the funds being raised for the placing of the bust of General Lee 
in the auditorium at Baylor. 

In 1920 the United Daughters of the Confederacy became a sec- 
tion of the League, and will always use a part of Charter Day by pre- 
senting an interesting and informing celebration program on the even- 
ing of this day. 




Mrs. H. L. Kokernut. 

In 1918 Mrs. H. L. Kokernot was appointed a trustee of Baylor 
College, she was the first woman ever made a member of this board 
of trustees. 

She with her husband has for many years been helping in all our 
educational work. They have been especially liberal in their gift to 
San Marcos Baptist Academy and in scholarships for young women in 
Baylor College. 



Page two hundred and eight 





Rev. James 
Taylor 



Gen. Zachary 
Taylor 



RELIGION, EDUCATION AND PATRIOTISM. 

These reminiscences may 

be brought to a fitting close 

by recalling conditions as they 

were in Texas seventy-five 

years ago. At the time when 

Baylor was founded, Zachary 

Taylor was settling the Texas 

border question; Sam Houston 

was rejoicing in annexation; 

and James Taylor, secretary of 

the Foreign Mission Board of 

the Southern Baptist Conven- 
tion, was sending the first two "soldiers of the cross" to China. Thus 
were the affairs of nation, state and church linked with the beginnings 
of Christian Education in Texas; and the relationship has continued 
throughout the years. At the celebration of our Diamond Jubilee, 
America was rejoicing at the salvation of the world from autocracy; 
Texas had become the greatest of our American commonwealths; and 
the Southern Baptist Convention, in session at Washington, commemo- 
rated its seventy-five years of service by the delivery, from the steps 
of the national capitol, of a renewed declaration of the principles of re- 
ligious liberty, and the departure for the Orient of the largest band of 
missionaries ever sent out by any missionary board. The extensive 
curricula of the sister institutions at Waco and Belton, the large stu- 
dent bodies, and four new buildings, mark the triumph of seventy-five 
years of sacrificial effort. Judge Baylor was buried forty-four years 
before his remains were removed to Belton; the Baylors were forty- 
four years old before the founding of another Baptist school in Texas. 
But now, with many colleges and fine academies in our denomination 
alone, the spirit of Baylor is shed abroad throughout the land, and we 
stand at the dawning of a new day. 

With gratitude for the good past, and the opportunity-filled pres- 
ent, we lock to God for His direction and blessing in leading us into 
greater achievements in our great mission of Christian education. Re- 
lying on His promises we are strengthened in the hope of full and com- 
plete triumph. 









Judge R. E. B. Baylor's Grave at Independence, 

1873-1917. 



Many members of General 
Sam Houston's family have 
been students in Baylor 
through the years. This is 
Mrs. Madge Williams Hearne, 
one of his granddaughters, as 
she appeared when in Col- 
lege. 



Page two hundred and nine 




Our National Capitol. 

During the Southern Baptist Convention May, 1920, Dr. G. W. 
Truett delivered from the steps of this building his memorable ad- 
dress on Baptists and Religious Liberty. 




Location of Texas Baptist Schools. 

Every Baptist school in Texas is crowded this fall, with a total 
attendance of some 8,000 students. Hundreds of volunteers for special 
service have been enlisted through religious forces at work in our 
Baptist schools. 



Page two hundred and ten 



PART TWO 




PART TWO. 

This part of our book is taken from the Blue Bonnet published by 
the Jubilee Class. We wish to express our appreciation for the effi- 
cient and business like method in which the editor, Miss Mary Wilson, 
and business manager, Mrs. Clara Carter Davis, have portrayed this 
year of our college history. Owing to the lack of space we have se- 
lected only representatives of some of the largest classes and clubs. 

Miss Maurine Griffis has rearranged Part II section for this pub- 
lication. 



Page two hundred and thirteen 




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Page two hundred and fourteen 




Our Greatest Need 



Our greatest need of the present for Baylor College is the develop- 
ment of distinct self-consciousness. That is a realization of individual 
ity so that she may express herself as a unit. It is necessary that she 
be so bound together by this spirit that she can bring the whole of her 
resources to bear upon any enterprise she may undertake. The alumnae 
and student body both present and past, have grown so large that they 
can accomplish great results if they can be mobilized and unified. 

The work of endowing the College will be simple when once we 
have aroused this spirit of conscious personality. 

•A spirit that will weld them into an irresitable unit. Much effort 
has been expended and much accomplished in many small ways. The 
great need now is to so marshal all of the forces as to give them a 
conviction of power and also an intelligent unity of effort. Baylor 
must be Endowed. 

The Baylor College League has set for its aim one million dollars 
in ten years. 

This is utterly impossible unless we all feel the need of it and all 
conscious of the power we have in our members. It can be done if our 
forces can be properly concentrated upon this one object. 

One wave of the sea is harmless, but combined with its fellows it 
may become irrestable. Our great problem now is to unify our forces 
and inspire them with a consciousness of their power. 

E. G. TOWNSEND, D. D. 



Page two hundred and fifteen 



Baylor College Trustees 

Class 1. 

W. B. McGEE -. - Lometa, Texas 

A. E. BOOTH Beaumont, Texas 

M. P. DALTON Killeen, Texas 

Class 2. 

J. H. PEPPER Belton, Texas 

A. C. BARKER Port Worth, Texas 

MRS. H. L. KOKERNOT Alpine, Texas 

Class 3. 

A. J. JARRELL Temple, Texas 

MRS. J. E. WILLIAMSON Austin, Texas 

J. D. BASSEL Belton, Texas 

Class 4. 

M. T. ANDREWS Temple, Texas 

R. E. BURT Dallas, Texas 

J. H. PACE Waxahachie, Texas 

WALLACE BASSET Dallas, Texas 

Officers of the Board. 

A. J. JARRELL, President Temple, Texas 

M. T. ANDREWS, Secretary Temple, Texas 

Executive Committees. 

M. T. Andrews, Temple, Texas. J. D. Bassel, Belton, Texas. 

A. J. Jarrell, Temple Texas Mrs. J. E. Williamson, Austin, Texas 

J. H. Pepper, Belton, Texas. M. P. Dalton, Killeen, Texas. 



Page two hundred and sixteen 




PRESIDENT J. C. HARDY, A. M., LL. D. 

VICE-PRESIDENT E. G. TOWNSEND, A. B., D. D. 

DEAN PAUL C. PORTER, A. M. 



Officers of Administration 




DEAN OF ACADEMY MRS. JENNIE M. HARDY, A. B. 
DEAN OF FINE ARTS T. S. LOVETTE 
DEAN OF WOMEN EVELYN CAMBELL, A. M. 



Page two hundred and seventeen 




MRS. ELLI M. TOWNSEND, A. B., Manager of Ely-Pepper Hall 

J. M. FRAZIER, Ph. D., M. D., Supervisor of Health. 
MRS. ANNIE H. WHITFIELD, A. B., Supervisor of Subsistence 



Officers of Adminstration 




MISS EDNA McDANIEL, Assistant to Dean of Women 
MRS. E. C. ELY, Assistant Manager of Ely-Pepper Hall 
MRS. MARY ROBESON, Assistant to Dean of Women 



Page two hundred and eighteen 




JESSIE LOUISE KENNEDY, Librarian 
C. C. HOOPER, A. B., General Business Manager 
BERTHA GOTTSEELIG, Secretary to President 



Officers of Adminstration 



MRS. W. B. McGARITY, Registrar 

MISS OLA BEATY, Secretary of Loan Fund 

MISS V. L. SMITH, Secretary of College 

MISS FANNIE HOLLAND, Cashier and Post Mistress 

MISS LUCY HARRIS, Bookkeepe 

T. E. SANDERFORD, Publicity Manager 



Page two hundred and nineteen 




PAUL CLAY PORTER, Professor of Mathematics 

C. M. VANCE, Professor of Science 

MISS MAUDE HAZEL GAEKLER, Professor of Latin and Greek 



College Faculty 




WILLIAM HARVEY VANN, Professor of English 
ETHEL RIDLEY LANIER, Instructor of English 
STELLA McDANIEL, Instructor of English 



Page two hundred and twgnty 




CLARENCE D. JOHNS, Professor of History and Political Economy 
LOIS FOSTER, Instructor in History 
HIRAM T. HUNTER, Professor of Education 



College Faculty 




MRS. JENNIE M. HARDY, Instructor in Education 
EVELYN CAMPBELL, Instructor in Education 
ELIZABETH HAVEN HILLIARD, Instructor in Education 



Page two hundred and twenty-one 




FREDA GARDNER, Instructor in Kindergarten Methods 

MARGARET MILLION, Professor of French 

E. A. MILLER, Professor of Spanish and German 



College Faculty 




PRITCHETT HARRISON, Professor of Home Economics 
ISABELLE M. STORY, Professor of Home Economics 
OVILLA WOOD, Director of Physical Education 



Pti'|e , two hundred and twenty-two 




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EjjWIN A. SCHAFER, Piano 
LERA M. THACKERAY, Piano 
JULIA BELLE JAMES, Piano 



Fine Arts Faculty 




BONITA WELLS, Piano, Theory, Harmony, History of Music, 
RUTH BURR, Piano 
ELIZABETH LOCHRIDGE HALE, Piano 



Page two hundred and twenty-four 





LA VERNA E. ASKIN, Head of Voice Department 
MRS. ALLIE COLEMAN PIERCE, Voice. 
MRS. HATTIE WOODRUFF HILLYER, Voice 



Fine Arts Faculty 




FRANK J. KOLBABA, Head of Violin and Orchestral Department 

ELLEN D. STUART, Drawing and Painting 

ELSIE M. BENNETT, Instructor in Commercial Arts 



Page two hundred and twenty-five 




LESLIE WARE, Piano 
ERNA PREIBISCH, Piano 



RUTH JEANNES, Piano 
ZULA SIBLEY, Voice 



Fine Arts Faculty 




MARION BARTON, Assistant in Voice 

LOIS HOGUE, Assistant in Art 

ANABEL BURFORD, Assistant in Commercial Art 



Page two hundred and twenty-six 




MRS. LULA BOWEN, Instructor in Mathematics 
BIRDIE McCRARY, Instructor in English 
L. PERNE SUMOER, Instructor in English 



Academy Faculty 




MRS. DAVID SPENCE FRANCIS, Instructor in English 
MRS. JENNIE M. HARDY, Dean of Academy 
KATHRYN BOWEN, Instructor in Latin 



Page two hundred and twenty-seven 




NELL CARRICK, Instructor in History 
EVELYN LOYETTA GASS, Instructor in Science 
D'ALVA HALE, Instructor in Spanish 



Academy Faculty 




MRS. CARROLL SMITH, Instructor in Spanish 
LUCILE TOWNSEND, Instructor in History 
LENA C. TERRY, Instructor in Home Economics 
IRENE CLARK, Sub-Academy Instructor 



Page two huhdred and twenty-eigh 



A Message to Seniors 



During your college days, dear girls, you have been advised in cor- 
ridor meetings, classrooms, and chapel. That you have listened pa- 
tiently gives me courage to offer you a bit of admonition. Realizing 
that many utterances are valueless, I can only hope that, as the gleam 
cf gold is in the base metal, so, out of my many words, one may be 
worth your remembering. 

I am thinking, not of the various activities that open to you col- 
lege graduates cf this the First Year of Freedom, but that the applica- 
tion of a few basic principles of life will smooth out for you many of 
the complixities and conflicts that arise from new conditions. I was 
led to think of this particularly on reading Mr. Wilson's speech at Car- 
lisle, in which he paid tribute to his mother and grandfather for their 
adherance to duty and acknowledged his quickened sense of indebted- 
ness to them during these years when his own duties have increased. 
I have wondered if the acceptance of duty would not solve for you 
many problems, help you to perform well, home, civic, and social obliga- 
tions, and lead you to give yourselves graciously to the needs of churcn 
and community. The taking up of duty brings not hardships, but 
strength of character and joy of heart. If our civilization is to be 
maintained each woman must meet her individual task. To you young 
college women will come calls from thousands of voices; if you heed 
the call of duty, you will find that life holds for you right pleasures, 
right pursuits, right success. 

Again, I think that sincerity of conduct and speech is a valuable 
asset. Duplicity, through much turning, wears itself out. The wom- 
an of today cannot afford to talk flippantly on matters of import, or 
have convictions chamelon-like in character. The profession must be 
substantiated by the life. The sweeping of a room is significant if 
one's heart is in the work. No matter in what obscurity you young 
women may dwell, if your conduct and works are prompted by the 
sense of right, you will win esteem; your example will influence, your 
words will carry weight; praise from you will gladden, censure will 
cause thought; because people believe in you they will turn to you for 
advice, counsel, comfort. Yet the acceptance of duty and the cultiva- 
tion cf sincerity cannot make life well rounded; their effects may be 
hampered by coldness and sternness. I believe that the crowning 
grace cf womanhood is compassion. To woman must ever fall the task 
of amelioration. She must stretch out the hand of mercy to the sinful 
and the suffering. She must maintain principles, but she must live 
the doctrine of forgiveness. Her sympathy can make right prevail 
where law is ineffective. You young women may hope through your 
trained intellects to become sources of power. But forget not to keep 
your hearts open to a world that is often wearied and grief stricken. 
The tear of pity can work more wonders than scientific formulae! 

Now my bit of advice must come to an end. I have written these 
words because I trust you, because I believe that in you are fine possi- 
bilities of noble womanhood. May the success of your college years 
be but indicative of finer achievements in the world beyond the college 
walls. But, most of all, do I desire that your lives themselves may be 
the embodiment of that scripture which says: "Mercy and truth are 
met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." 

EMMA C. KING. 



Page two hundred and twenty-nine 




Gladys Roach 
President of the Senior Class 



Page two hundred and thirty 





BERTHA ARMSTRONG 

Bono 
A. B. Science 



GLADYS BARMORE 

Cameron 
A. B. Science 



mm 

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JANIE BELLE BATEN 

Cisco 
A. B. English 



JEWEL BURKES 

Reagan 
A. B. English 



Page two hundred and thirty-one 





CLARA CARTER 

Greenville 
A. B. History 



MAUDE CARTER 

Killeen 
A. B. History 





SUE MAE CARTER 

Hartshorne, Okla. 

A. B. English 



ADA CATES 

Shiro 
A. B. English 



Page two hundred and thirty-two 





GENOA COLE 

Sweetwater 
A. B. English 



MARY ELIZABETH GRAIN 
Lone Oak 
A. B. History 





VIRGINIA DILLON 

Pendleton 
A. B. History 



THERESA DUFF 
Ranger 
A. B. History 



Page two hundred and t h i r t y-thre 





IDA MAE GARNER 

Galveston 
A. B. English 



RUBY GARNER 

Palacios 
A. B. History 





EULA HAM 

Teague 

A. B. Education 



ZEMMA HARE 

Orange 
A. B. Bible 



Page two hundred ani thirty-four 





CORNELIA HOWELL 

Donie 
A. B. Spanish 



RUTH HICKS 

Henrietta 
A. B. History and Political Science 





MONETTE JUNE JORDAN 

Oglesby 
A. B. English 



INA JOHNSON 

Mineral Wells 
A. B. Mathematics 



Page two hundred and thirtv-f 




ERMINE PARTAIN 

Palacios, Texas 
A. B. Science. 




BELFA REDFORD 

Boyd 
A. B. English 




MARIE PRYOR 

Belton 
A. B. English 




GLADYS ROACH 

Coleman 
A. B. History and Political Science 



Page two hundred and thirty-six 




EPFIE SATTERWHITE 

Wortham 
A. B. Bible 




MABEL STOVALL 

Barksdale 
A. B. English 




CAMELLE SEVIER 
Oenaville 
A. B. History 




CLURA WARD 

Eden 
A. B. History 






Page two hundred and thirty-seven 




ARNETTE WATFORD 

Lufkin 
A. B. English 




LOIS HOGUE 

Sweetwater 
Piano 




MARY WILSON 

Bogata 
A. B. Modern Language 




RUTH PREIBISCH 

Sealy 
Piano 



Page two hundred and thirty -eighfr 



r 





MARY CHRISTINE SALING 

Marshall 
Piano 



VIRGINIA WILEY 

McKinney 
Piano 





ALEEN JONES 

Beaumont 
Voice 



CLEO DAWSON 

Mission 

Expression 



Page two hundred and thirty- nine 




THERESA DUFF 

Ranger 
Expression 




MAXIE HERRINGTON 

Huntington 
Expression 




IDA MAE GANNER 
Galveston 
Expression 




LA MYRA JARRELLE 

Belton 
Expression 



Page two hundred and forty 




ARNETTE WATFORD 

Lufkin 

Expression 




OVILLA WOOD 

Hughes Springs 
Expression 




HELEN WHITENER 

Texarkana 
Expression 




ANNICE DALTON 

Pittsburg 
Home Economics 



Page two hundred and forty-one 





LUCILE DOWDY 

Lexington 
Home Economies 



LEONA WATSON 
Heidenheimer 

Post Graduate 



To the Class of '20 



The filmy clouds that wrap the stars. 
And held them in their place, 
And let the moon-beams filter through 
Are like thee, Senior Class. 

The clew drcps dripping from the leaves, 
The daisies in the grass, 
The meadow larks' sweet vibrant calls, 
Are like thee, Senior Class. 

They want to serve as well they may, 
And constantly be giving 
To someone, cheer, hope, faith, and love, 
The glad pure joy of living. 



Page two hundred and forty-two 



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Mary Jane Mansker 
President of Junior Class 



The Junior Class, en entering upon their graduation year in the 
fall of nineteen hundred and twenty, shall fall heir to the richest 
her tnge that any Senior Class has ever before received in Baylor 
College. Each of them are years of sacrifice and progress; back of 
them are the hopes and prayers cf ; all the other classes that have 
gone before. Realizing that much has been given to them, they are 
determined to give forth much in return. They have caught up the 
motto: "An Endowed Baylor Endows the World," and they are seeking 
to raise an endowment fund even larger than the fund raised by the 
present Senior Class. Nor shall they stop until their dreams are 
crystalized into definite action. 



Page two hundred and forty-three 




LOTTIE BLANTON 

Tabor 



VIOLET BEITER 

Belton 



GENEVA BROWN 

Merkel 



CARRIE BELL CACHRAN 

Lovelady 



EUNICE COOK 

Whitewright 



Page two hundred and forty-four 



IRENE ADELE CLARK 

Cleburne 



MARY DAVIS 

Eldorado 



CHRISTINE EVETTS 

Belton 



BELLE GAINER 
Bryan 



FLORINE GILSTRAP 

Franklin 




Pa&e two hundred and forty-five 




GUION GRIFFIS 

Greenville 



MINNIE HENDERSON 

Burlington 



ENOLA KEATON 

Temple 



ORA MAE LA GRONE 

Rogers 



GLADYS LUSK 

Belton 



Page two hundred and forty-six 



WINNIE DELL MATHIS 

Bryan 



MARY JANE MANSKER 

Moody 



MABEL McCALL 

El Paso 




BERTHA McMICHAEL 

Naples 



FAY MURRAY 
Lovelady 




Page two hundred and forty-seven 




VADA LEE NELSON 

Pittsburg- 



BEULAH STONE 

Gatesville 



GENEVIEVE TOOLE 

Hemphill 



MARY THOMPSON 

Georgetown 



WILLIE WATSON 
Jermyn 



Page two hundred and forty-eight 



IRENE WHITE 

Cleburne 



PANSY WOODRUFF 

Foil Stockton 



AZILEE COUCH 
Oklaunion 




LUCILE GARRISON 
Belton 



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Page two hundred and forty-nine 




Hazel Sturgeon 
President Sophmore Class 



The Sophomore Class is the second largest in the college. It is 
also one of the most enthusiastic and most loyal. With two years 
before them until graduation, they are already busy planning how 
they shall carry on the work of building a "Better Baylor." It is 
their determination that Baylor's high standards shall be developed 
more completely and that still higher and broader ideals shall engage 
the efforts of their successors. 



Page two hundred and fifty 



LOUIE D. AGNEW 

Bon ham 



MYRTLE ANDREWS 

Eastland 



HELEN BAGBY 

Sao Paulo, Brazil 



LOUISE BARTON 
Temple 



FOY CANNADAY 

Floydada 



OLIVE W. CHAFFEE 

Antlers, Oklahoma 



CAMMIE CLARK 

Globe. Arizona 




Page two hundred and fifty-one 




ALICE COLLINS 

San Juan 



MYRTEL CRAWFORD 

Piano 



WINNIE CRAWFORD 
Piano 



SARA MACK CROOK 

Crockett 



ANN1CE DALTON 

Pittsburg: 



CLEO DAWSON 

Mission 



MARY FRANKS 

Alice 



Page two hundred and fifty-two 



ALMA FREEMAN 

Denning 



GRACE FREEMAN 

Denning 



RUDE GILMER 

Belton 



MAXTE HERRTNGTON 

Huntington 



OLLIE HUDSPETH 

Conroe 



LUCILE JEFFREY 

Big Wells 



AMY BELLE JOHNSON 

San Antonio 




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Page twp hundred and fifty-thre 




MARIE KENNEDY 

Bay City 



GRACE KILGORE 
Cooledge 



ANNA LEE KING 

Midland 



LORENA LA GRONE 

Roger-.' 



PEARL MANSKER 

Moody 



LYD1A MARTIN 

Bowser 



IONE McDANIEL 

Temple 



Page two hundred and fiftv-f our 



LORANCE McKINNEY 

Cameron 



LULA McKINNEY 
Cameron 



AUDREY MOORE 

Lott 



AMY SELLMAN 
Rochelle 




ALVEY STRACHN 
Beaumont 



HAZEL E. STRUGEON 

Ames, Oklahoma 



MINNIE OLA THORNTON 

Lovelacly 







Page two hundred and fifty-five 




EVANGELINE WILDS 

San Benito 



ELIZABETH WILSON 
Bryan 



GERTRUDE YOUNG 

Beeville 



THELMA BLATHERWICK 
Quanah 



EVELYN DAWSON 

Belton, Texas 



LIDIE BELLE PIPKIN 

Bryan 



Page two hundred ana fifty-six 




Nell Crosby 

President Senior Academy 

Class 



Helen Whitener 
President Freshman Class 




Page two hundred and fifty-seven 



Societies 



The reorganization in January cf this year of the Royall Academia 
and Historical Literary Societies, which during the war had given 
place to Red Cross work, marked an important step in the progress 
which Baylor is making toward first place in the women's colleges 
of the South. 

This is the step which means much in the deveiopement of the 
institution count over the roll of our Southern colleges and you 
will notice that these institutions which are doing the best work, and 
turning out the strongest graduates are in every instance colleges 
in which there is a progressive, wholesome society spirit. Nor is the 
need for such organization any less in the colleges for women than in 
the colleges for men. Indeed, at the present time is it probably greater 
This is the day of women's opportunity; it is also the day for her 
responsibilities. 

The term "Literary, ' as applied to the modern, up-to-date society, 
is likely to be misleading. Literature and music will have a place, but 
their main interest will be in problems of civic and rural life, public 
health and public morals, and the various political, social, and econo- 
mic questions of the day. Just as religious organizations prepare 
the student for work in the church, so the society gives training tor 
the service in tiie community. She will be prepared not only to lead 
Lii the Sunday School and the B. Y. P. U. but in the civic betterment 
society, the library association, the woman's club and other organiza- 
tions of a similar nature which are coming to have so large a part 
in shaping public sentiment in the interest of public welfare. 

Thus, the society gives training fcr citizenship. It affords practice 
in the rules of crder, and th^ conduct of an organizanized assembly H 
promotes a healthy spirit of rivalry, and thus developes the finest kind 
of loyalty. It gives training in extemporaneous speaking. And in the 
institution which has no intercollegiate athletics, the literary societies, 
in their contests with representatives of other institutions, gives the 
best opportunity for the expression of that indefinable but very 
important something which we call college spirit. 



Page two hundred, and fifty -eigh 



Royal Academia Society Officers 



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Jewel Burkes President 

Irene White - Vice-president 

Alma Freeman Secretary 

Leo Ware . - Treasurer 

Ora Mae La Grone Reporter 

Miss Ethel Ridlev Lanier a 

Mr. C. D. Johns bponsurs 



Historical Literary Society Officers 





Mabel Stovall President 

Ina Johnson _ First Vice-president 

Violet Beiter _ Second Vice-president 

Olive Chaffee Secretary- 
Winnie Crawford Treasurer 

Euva Majors Reporter 

Helen Bagby Censor 

Miss Lois Foster 

Mr. W. H. Vann Sponsors 



Page two hundred and fifty -nine 





El Circulo Adelante Officers 

Le Roy Duggan ._ President 

Cleo Dawson _ Vice-president 

Cornelia Howell Secretary 

Mary Wilson Treasurer 

Ida Mae Garner _. Reporter 

Camelle Sevier _ _ Yell Leader 

E. A. Miller Sponsor 




Page two hundred and sixty 



Members El Circulo Adelante 




Bertha Armstrong 

Jewel Burkes 

Miss Byron 

Sue Mae Carter 



Eunice Cook 

Thresa Duff 

Mary Franks 

Alma Freeman 

Grace Freeman 



Rude Gilmer 

Minnie Henderson 

Lucile Jeffrey 

May Jenson 

Audrey Moore 



Mary Robeson 

Beulah Stone 

Leona Watson 

Evangeline Wilds 



Page two hundred and sixty-one 



he Cercle Francais Officers 




Miss Margaret Million - — Sponsor 

Mary Wilson — - President 

Ada Cates , Vice-president 

Velma Lamar Secretary 

Florine Gilstrap — - - Treasurer 

Renee Vadorin ----- Interpreter 

Mabel Stovall - Reporter 



Classical Club Officers 




Dr. Gaeckler Sponsor 

Irene Clark President 

Sadie Gale Vice-president 

Verna Burkes Secretary 



Page two hundred and sixty-two 



History of the Student 
Self -Government Association 

Student self-government came about in a rather unusual way 
in Bayicr College. The student body did not petition the Faculty as 
lS generally done, instead, the President brought the matter before 
the students. Dr. Hardy first conceived the idea of introducing 
student-government by means of a gradual process of developement. 
With this purpose in view, he selected from the senior class five girls: 
L ranees McCardell, Ruth Terry, Ada McQuarry, Celia Mae Jones and 
Ivey Gravette, who were to be placed on the honor roll, and given the 
special privilege of sell-government. 

All this was a new thing in Baylor, and because those on the honor 
roll did not understand perfectly the position in which they had been 
placed, a committee of three was selected from the faculty to advise 
with them. This committee of eight, three teachers and five students, 
met together to discuss the plans for the development and growth of 
the honor roll system; after due consideration they decided that the 
time was ripe for student-government in Baylor College. This phase 
of the matter was taken before Dr. Hardy, and he, trusting to the 
judgement of the committee, was heartily in favor of it. 

It was then the duty and privilege of the committee to draw up a 
constitution for this prospective student's association. After studying 
student-government in other schools and colleges, they framed a 
constitution, basing it on the constitution of Vassar and Mount Holyoke. 
November 16, 1915, this constitution was read before the general 
faculty meeting and was approved. The following charter was then 
granted: 

"The Faculty of Baylor College believing, that the welfare of the 
College will be advanced by the development of an efficient self-govern- 
ment among the students, individually and in relation to other stu- 
dents, hereby grants to the Students' Association, as a step in this di- 
rection, full legislation and executive control of the following matters: 

"First. Maintenance of quiet in the buildings. 
"Second. Order and decorum in the buildings, on the campus 
and in town. 

"In order that the Student's Association may, by reason of its 
freedom from control, feel its full responsibility in the above matters, 



Page Two hundred and sixty-three 



the Faculty gives said Association the right to change the constitution 
and by-laws without the approval of the Faculty, provided such 
changes do not involve any extension of the powers of the association 
beyond the matters above enumerated. If, in order to secure efficient 
government in the above respects, the Association shall deem it advisa- 
ble to prescribe penalties, such penalties so far as they effect the stu- 
dents connected with the college on her business relations with it, shall 
be valid only when approved by the President of the College. 

"The Student's Association is expected to keep the Faculty in- 
formed as to its constitution, by-laws, rules and its actions in all mat- 
ters of government. 

"The Faculty reserves the right to revoke this part of power or 
any part of it, at any time." 

According to the constitution, only the students of the college 
department, or those having twelve and one-half credits, are elegible 
to this Association. On January S ; 1916, a meeting of the students 
who could meet this requirement, was called; and before this body 
the charter and constitution of the association was read. After the 
reading, the constitution was formally adopted and signed by one 
hundred and seventy-two students. 

January 9, 1916, the first business meeting of the Students' 
Association was called; and in the following week the officiers for 
that year were elected as follows: President from Senior class, one 
vice-president from the Junior Class, and one from the Fine Arts 
Department, Secretary from the Sophomore class, and Treasurer from 
the Freshman class. 

The members of the Student's Council, which is the judicial 
department of the Association, were elected as follows: two repre- 
sentatives from the Senior Class, one from the Fine Arts Department, 
and one each from the Junior, Sophomore and Freshman classes. 

In the Association the students make their own laws, and are 
then responsible for their enforcement. The purpose of the Associa- 
tion is to promote the highest standard of honor and integrity in all 
matters of personal responsibility, not only for herself, but for those 
around her. Such is deemed necessary to be a part in the preparation 
of a young woman for life beyond school. 

The Association is very young and its limitations and extensions 
are not yet clearly defined. 



Page two hundred and sixty-four 




Luther Hall Self Government Council 

Ada Cates __ ____ President 

Ruth Hicks _ _ House Presidexit 

Lottie Blanton _ First Vice-President 

Lois Hogue Second Vice-President 

Hazel Sturgeon Secretary 

Zela Newman Treasurer 

Mary Wilson Senior Representative 

Beulah Stone Junior Representative 

Cleo Dawson Sophomore Representative 



Two hundred and sixty-five 








Ely Pepper Hall Self Government Council 

Ina Johnson President 

Bertha Armstrong Vice-President 

Thelma Blatherwick Secretary 

Gladys Barmore Senior Representative 

Violet Beiter Junior Representative 

Pearl Tucker Freshman Representative 

Ruth Johnson Fine Arts Representative 

Maude Dolan Fourth Year Representative 



Page Two hundred and sixty-six 



Religious Activities at Baylor 

College 

Baylor College, founded and supported by the Baptist General 
Convention of Texas, is a religious college. We seek in every legiti- 
mate way to build up the spiritual life of every pupil. This is done by 
a religious atmosphere in the home life and in the class room, by daily 
chapel exercises, by the students' religious organization and by Sunday 
School services. Each year we observe two missionary days when we 
celebrate the lives of Mary Lyon and Ann Hasseltine Judson. 

The weekly Y. W. A. service is held every Sunday evening on the 
lawn when the weather will permit, and otherwise in Alma Reeves 
Chapel. All students are cordially invited to attend. 

Complete within itself, yet a part of the whole, is the B. Y. P. U. 
organization that meets weekly. It is our hope that the members 
of separate B. Y. P. U.'s shall increase until every student shall be one 
of a group of forty studying to show herself" approved of God, or work- 
man that needeth not to be ashamed," thus making efficient every 
young woman who would learn largely by doing. At present there 
are twelve B. Y. P. U.'s, all doing good work. A group of young wom- 
en who feel the call to do specific mission work at home or on the for- 
eign field compose the Mission Band. New enthusiasm and interest in 
missions has resulted from the student Volunteer Conference at Ft. 
Worth. The spirit prevailing among our people as a result of the Bap- 
tist Sevi-niy-five Million Campaign is also felt in our band. The Presi- 
dent of last year's Mission Band is now a missionary in China. 

In the twilight services that are held just after supper each even- 
ing the faculty and students meet in sweet devotions under the leader- 
ship of those chosen by the religious committee of the Young Wom- 
an's Auxiliary. 

The college conducts its Sunday School in Alma Reeves Chapel. 
The services are well attended, every boarding student in the college 
is enrolled. Much interest is manifested in this religious service. 

Every Wednesday evening, prayer services are held in each dormi- 
tory. These quiet devotional prayer services are attended by the 
most earnest Christian girls and teachers, and are full of inspiration. 
The weekly students' prayer meeting is held every Friday during the 
chapel hour. 

At Baylor College on the 24th and 26th of October, there were 
four hundred and thirty girls who surrendered their lives to God's ser- 
vice. Dr. Charles E. Maddry, pastor of the University Church at Aus- 
tin, led the revival for this year. The religious life of many students 

was awakened and there was not one who did not receive help in some 
way. 



Page Two hundred and sixty -seven 




Y. W. A. Officers 

Camelle Sevier President 

ina Johnson Vice-president 

Irene. White Secretary 

Olive Chaffee Treasurer 



Y. W, A. Cabinet 

If you would know the spirit of any college you must know the 
pulse of the religious organizations found there. Baylcr College in- 
vites any girl, of any or no denomination who is worthy, to come to 
her for the things that make life worth living, and gives to her true re- 
ligious liberty. 

Practically all the religious activities of the college are under 
the supervision of the Y. W. A. Cabinet. One department which 
is of peculiar interest is the course in Mission Study. More than two 
hundred young women in small group classes for the study cf "The 
Gospel for a Working World" and "Working Women of the Orient," 
was an evidence of the democratic mind of the student body as they 
seek to make Christianity real to those who bear the burdens incident 
to industrial life. 



Two hundred and sixty-eight 






Clura Ward 

Zemma Hare 

Hazel Sturgeon ... 
Evelyn Campbell ... 
Lidie Belle Pipkin 

Zula Sibley _ 

Mary Wilson ._ 

Ruth Hicks 

Mabel Stovall 



Devotional 

_ Devotional 

Publicity 

Advisor 

Social 

. Music 

Membership 

Assistant Treasurer 
... Personal Service 



Two hundred and sixty-nine 




Irene White 
Virginia Dillon 
Avis Fisher 
Luene Henson 



Jennie K. Kerr 
Ruby Kinser 



Mary Franks 
Maucle Dolan 
Lor en e La Grone 
Minnie Ola Thornton 



Page Two hundred and seventy 




Three Arts Club Officers 

Mabel McCall President 

A.leene Jones .".... "... Vice-president 

Mary Saling Secretary 

Elizabeth Wilsor : Tuearurer 



Three Arts Club 



This club which has reached the hundred mark in this, the first 
year, both in members and quality of achievements was organized on 
November the twelfth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. It is the duty 
as well as the privilege of the followers of the three muses, of music, 
of painting, and of expression, to foster the spirit of art in its truest 
joy-giving form. 

The Three Arts Club embodies each of the fine arts. All students 
of music, painting, and expression are members of the club. The 
definite aim of the club is to further the interests and development 
of the individual as well as to create a definite expression of the bond 
existing between all of the Fine Arts, which is expressed by the trite, 
yet true, expression, "Art for Art's Sake." 



Pa 



two hundred and seventy-one 




Choral Club 



First Row — (front) Aleene Jones, Hazel Sturgeon, Luzelle Smith, 
Inez Grisliam, Miss Askin, Nitis Herrington, Margaret Russell, Jeffe 
Mason, Lucile Dowdy. 

Second Row — Summie Clark, Geneva Brown, Johnnie Mae Yar- 
brough, Aurelia Robertson, Mabel McCall, Cammie Clark, Sara Mack 
Crook, Lillian Scott, Marion Barton, Mamye Dew. 

Third Row — Belle Gainer, Zelma Mask, Xenia Bell, Eleanor Con- 
nell, Velma Strickland, Louise Barton, Ida Mae Garner, Ada Cates, 
Miss Burr. 

Fourth Row — Lucile Garrison, Mary Edna Shaw, Gladys Lusk, 
Lavonn Hobbs. Ola Mae Whitaker, Cecil Day. 



Orchestra 




Two hundred and seventy-two 




'icers Athletic Council 

Lidie Belle Pipkin .._ _____ _ __ President 

Hazel Sturgeon ___ Vice-president 

Foy Cannaday __._ Secretary and Treasurer 

Louie D. Agnew Yell Leader 

Miss Ovilla Wood _ Director of" Physical Education 



Tennis Club 




Two hundred and seventy-three 




I 



ion 



Athletics in Baylor was once considered no more than mere past- 
time or amusement, but now a stronger foundation is being laid and 
it is a regular department of the school work. Baylor had her first 
taste of real athletics in the years of 1908-9. About eight basket ball 
teams and several tennis teams were organized. Duringt his year 
Geo. B. Rosborough was employed at Baylor's first athletic manager. 
Much of the success and good spirit in athletics of Baylor College has 
been clue to the splendid work done by Geo. B. Rosborough. 

From this time, great interest has been taken in every depart- 
ment of athletics. The class of 1909 has the honor of being the first 
to contribute to the building of the new gymnasium. To this class we 
owe our supply of dumb bells and Indian clubs. 

A number of beautiful trophies have been given by the friends oil 
Baylor College to increase the interest in athletics. The trophies are 
a tangible representation of the prestige held by classes and individuals 
in our student body. As shown above, we have: 

The Tennis Shield for Supremacy in Doubles. 

The Cup for Class Supremacy in Field Day Sports. 

The Cheering Trumpet fcr Supremacy in Class Cheering. 

The Basket Ball Cup fcr Supremacy in Class Basket Ball. 

The John Kill Luther Loyalty Shield for those doing most to em- 
body and inspire the spirit of loving loyalty to old Baylor. The list 
includes Alice Bagby, Ovilla Wood, Lois Pipkin, Amy Wade, Maurine 
Griffis and Camelle Sevier. 

Tennis Shield for Supremacy in Singles. 

The Field Day Stunt Cup. 

Stunt Night Lamp, Prep Pony, and the Conant King Cup for the 
best all-round athlete. 



Page Two hundred and seventy-four 




Page Two hundred and seven ty-fiv 



May Queen 1920 




MISS BELLE GAINER 



May Day Festivals 

Under the auspices cf the Athletic Director, a May festival is held 
each year, in which the Polk Dancing classes take part. The May 
Queen is elected by popular vote; this year the junior favorite was 
unanimously elected. 



Two hundred and seventy-six 



?h P Z? a r m ,„f£l BeIle H™>™ _ G^dys Barmore 



Thelma Edmundson 



Lorine Goodwin 
Minnie Henderson 



Lula McKinney 
Harriet Henderson 




Luene Henson 

Miss Tva Lena Pettet 



Lydi a W imberly Ma - R -lta\e MeK^"— 



Page two hundred a n d s e ve n t 



y - s e v e n 



Olive W. Chaffee Sadie Graham Miss Hanley Myrtle Hughes 
Blondine Pouts Faye Fouts Hazel Millei 




Eloise Porter 
Bonnie Strickland 



Mabel Frances Robinett 
Velma Strickland Hazel Sturgeon 

Mary Sturgeon 



Page two hundred and seventy-eight 



Mary Blankenship 
Foy Cannaday 
Clara Caraway 



Ruth Dillingham Catherine Smith 

Oliver Rea Eackle Mary Stark 

Emma Lee Le Grand Guydelle Vineyard 



n^-^Hffl nolfc^bj'b 




Mattie Mae Caskey 
Georgia Clark 



Gladys Hicks 
Gladys Jones 
Pauline McAdoo 



Marguerite Viles 
Willie Couch 



Page two hundred and seventy-nine 




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Page two hund'red and eighty 



Helen Bagby, Sao Paulo, Brazil Guadalupe Garay, Mexico 

Amalia Macias, Mexico 




Annie Lowe, China Irene Macias, Mexico 

Aclelia Mattar, Sao, Paulo, Brazil Jennie Uliuhi, Honolulu, Hawaii 



Page Two hundred and eighty-one 



Louise Barton Christine Everts Lucile Garrison Rude Gilmer 




43«tt Com 




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Gladys Lusk 
Hazel Miller 



Merle Lusk 
Camile Sevier 






lone McDaniel 
Leita Willbanks 



Page two hundred and eighty-two 



Pauline Bird Carrie Belle Cochran Sara Mack Crook Myrtle Eaton 
Alma Freeman Grace Freeman 







Frankie Harris Mixie Kerrington Jennie C. Kerr Mary Russell 
Lillian Scott Mary Edna Shaw Alvey Strachn Minnie Ola Thornton 



Page two hundred and eighty-three 



Clara Carter Mary Grain Annice Dalton Myra Dewitt 

Thera Evens Vella Fay Evens Mildred Fort 




Guion Griffis 
Vada Lee Nelson 



Hartsell Turner 



Etola Hearne 
Mary Wilson 



Page two hundred and eighty-four 



Lottie Blanton 
Florine Gilstrap 



Irene Francis 



Belle Gainer 

Clara Love 





■■■■-... 





OevMty 

Citato*- • - 




Lidie Belle Pipkin 




lone Steele 



■n^.. i . . i .- i .i-^^- »— 



Page two hundred and eighty-five 



Grace Benskin Mrs. Cage Georgia Carson Avis Fisher 

Ruby Nation Mata Rosenaw Lula Stovall 




Mabel Stovall 



Jessie Tate 



Myrtle Young 



Page two hundred and eighty-six 



Jewel Burkes 
Edna Lane 




Audrey Moore 



Vera Burkes 



Ida Clark 



U Club 




Katie Mirick 





Mrs. Mary Robeson, Sponsor Mary Robeson 



Page two hundred and eighty-seven- 



Publications of Students 




MARY WILSON 



CLARA CARTER 



THE BLUE BONNET 



Published Once A Year By Seniors 

Mary Wilson Editor-in-Chief 

Clara Carter Business Manager 

Gladys Roach _ Assistant Editor 

Christine Evetts Assistant Business Manager 

Department Editors. 
Genoa Cole Classes 

Ina Johnson Organizations 

Camelle Sevier " uiganization* 

Janie Belle Baten Athletics 

Ada Cates f 

Guion Griffis \ College Life 

Ruth Hicks { 

OlaWhitaker f Cartoonists 

Lefa Ball \ 

Page two hundred and eighty-eight 



Weekly Newspaper 




IDA MAE GARNER 



OLIVE CHAFFEE 



Published by the Students 



United Statements Staff 

Ida Mae Garner __ .__. Editor-in-Chief 

Olive Chaffee __ Business Manager 

Gladys Roach ._ Associate Editor 

Guion Griffis _ News Editor 

Zelna Newman Social Editor 

Ina Johnson Ely-Pepper Hall Editor 

Genoa Cole Exchange Editor 

Ada Cates Joke Editor 

Marion Barton ; Fine Arts Editor 

Alleen Jones Assistant Business Manager 



Page t w;;cr fr u n d re c|~ "a~n d eighty-nine 





Luis r-ipkin 



Zemma Hare 




Irene Clark 



Officers of Student League 



Lois Pipkin President 

Zemma Hare Vice-President 

Irene Clark Vice-President 

Mildred Mihills r hair man of Jubilee Program Committee 

D'Alva Hale - Executive Secretary 

Amy Wade Publicity Secretary 

Ola Beaty ?.._ Student Secretary 




Mildred Mihills 




D'Alva Hale 



Amy Wade 



Ola Beaty 



Page two hundred and ninety 



The Jubilee Class and Baylor's 

Endowment 



Eula Ham 



The endowment of Baylor College is a big, wonderful God-given 
task that every daughter of Baylor will be proud to have a part in 
performing. 

In the history of every institution there are periods peculiarly 
marked and memorable. Such a period in the history of Baylor 
College is the Diamond Jubilee year. The Diamond Jubilee Class 
thought a long time about, and made many searches for the gitt that 
would best show her appreciation and devoted loyalty to her Alma 
Mater but when the right gift was mentioned, everyone knew that 
the search was ended and that we were to have a part in the endow- 
ment campaign. 

We chose a part that was near and dear to us through our four 
years college life and experience in Baylor and unanimously voted 
to endow a Bible Chair that would carry the name of our beloved 
Vice-president, Dr. E. G. Townsend. 

What greater monument could have been erected to our class 1 :' 
What better way could our love and loyalty be shown than by con- 
tributing in this way to the endowment fund that will make Baylor 
better able to serve the people of our Southland and all, in the way 
that God would have her serve. When Mr. Hawkins, an English 
author, was asked: "What, in your opinion, is your greatest work? 
He instantly replied: "Sir, it has never been written." 

The Jubilee Class exclaim with him: "Our best work has not yet 
been done." We are not content with receiving Baylor's best but 
believe "our best" is the endowment of this Bible Chair. 

Evangelism and Christian Education go hand in hand in heathen 
countries and at home. The endowment will enable Baylor to give 
necessary training to her missionary girls, including the daughters 
of foreign missionaries. Christ bade us, "Go ye into all the world 
and preach the Gospel." We have put our shoulders to the wheel ':o 
do His bidding — will you help in the joy-giving task? 



Endowment of Bible Chair 

The Baylor League, composed of all students who have at 
any time matriculated in the college, has taken as its objective the 
endowment of the College. The Senior Class of 1920 decided to 
start, the movement by endowing the Chair of Bible. The reasons 
for choosing this rather than some other, were: first, the paramount 
importance of this department. Its efficiency should not be en- 
dangered by any possible necessity for retrenchment in other lines. 
Second, the very urgent necessity for enlargement. Third, because 
of the large number of minister's daughters and prospective mission- 
aries, this department is not as remunerative as others. 

Miss Effie Satterwhite, who is now married and going with iier 
husband to Argentina, says, concerning the importance of this 
endowment: 

"I studied in Baylor College for six years, and of all the courses 
I had, those in the Bible Department are the most lasting. Since the 
student body of Baylor College has increased to such a lage number, 
it seems necessary that one person be employed to have, as his duty, 



Page two hundred and ninety-one 



the direction of the religious activities, including teaching Bible. I 
believe the students realize this need more than anyone else can, and 
surely they will work to endow a chair which will provide the salary 
for one who is competent to teach Bible and Missions." 

Miss Ina Johnson, a graduate of 1920, says: "Would it pay 
to endow a Bible Chair in Baylor College? At the close of every 
school year, there go out from Baylor more than one thousand girls 
to spread their influence in the city, town or small country church. 
They have an influence that only college women can have. We can 
readily see that, should these young women be taught God's word 
which enriches any life and makes it stronger, the extent of good they 
could do is unlimited. The young woman of today will be the leader 
of our denomination tomorrow. 

"God speaks to us through His word. No person can be intelligent 
and a strong Christian without a knowledge of the Bible. It is food 
to the hungry soul, as bread is to the hungry body. If we seek the 
God-planned life, we must know His word. If the great fundamental 
teachings of God were taught our young women, there would be 
fewer wasted lives. 

"Let me appeal to you as a student who has come under the 
influence and power of the Bible teaching in Baylor, that you may 
help others to be blessed by the strengthening of this department. 
Again I ask, would it pay to endow a Bible Chair in Baylor College?" 

Miss Lula Moore a consecrated graduate of a number of years 
ago, says: "From every land comes the call for more missionaries. 
The opportunity for service seems to be greater than at any other 
time during the seventy-five years of Baylor's history- Students are 
longing to be trained for service. 

"Baylor College is not satisfied with what she has clone in the 
past, but has planned to do greater things for the cause of Missions. 
What she wants and needs is endowment. She can never do her best 
without it. We need twenty-five thousand dollars to endow a Bible 
Chair for the college department. This will be a foundation for 
larger things which the students have planned. 

"Surely every girl who has received training at Baylor will want 
to have a part in the endowment for larger service and in the making 
of a greater Baylor. Baylor girls, everywhere, whatever may be 
your walk of life, won't you help in this worthy task and help to 
endow Baylor for greater service?" 

Mrs Ethel Lee Scott, a graduate of more than twenty years ago, 
says: "The Senior Class of 1920 have taken for themselves an aim so 
noble that it should appeal to all daughters of Baylor with such 
interest as to cause them to throw every ounce of their energy in an 
effort to help. It is the raising of a fund to endow a Bible Chair 
in the College of Baylor. 

"Why should a matter of this importance be neglected? We build 
dormitories and gymnasiums, science halls and natatoriums, each 
chiefly to further our physical or. mental well-being, while we forget 
the corner-stone; the spiritual, without which no college should 
scarcely have the right to exist. Is there anything for which wo 
love our Baylor more than that she has placed Christian ideals 
first and foremost above all material things? Then why not make 
this aim of our College sure and secure for all time? The Bible 
is the one and only reason for our religious existence. Its revelations 
and precepts we claim to love and follow with our hearts and souls 
and strength. Let us prove it. A five-dollar gift from 5,000 persons 
would do it. With a small personal sacrifice from each now, we can 
make this Bible Chair a reality. Within a year it will be truly a gift, 
for the glory of God." 

This is a definite, earnest and worthy call. Let every Baylor girl 
who reads this, at once plan to do her part. 



Page two hundred and ninety-two 



Freshman Scholarship Holders 




Freshman Scholarship first bestowed upon Miss OveJla Wood in 1917 




•' 



Eula Lee Ham 





Gladys Joseph 



Evelyn Dawson 



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undred a n -1 ninety-three 



Charter Dag Programs 

February 1 , 1945 

Elli Moore Townsend Hall 
Processional 
Invocation 
Reception of Class of 19 45 into Alumnae Association. 

Vocal Solo Miss Ethelyn Morgan Seymour 

Baylor Girls in Every Land Mrs. Nannie David Black 

Greetings from Graduates in Hawaii, Australia, India, Russia, 

Japan and Turkey. 
One Hundred Thousand Dollar Science Hall for Baylor Academy. 
Gift of Present Student Body, President of Student League 
Mrs. D'Al/a Hale Pierce 

Orchestra Baylor Melody 

Composed by Mary Helen Brown Tally 

Our Eaylor in 2020 . Mrs. Effie Satterwhite Henry 

Achievement of Baylor's Daughters Miss Alice Bagby 

Announcements by the Secretary of Alumnae Association 
Announcements by Secretary of Student League 
Presentation el Baylor Banner to Baylor Institute 

Anncuncements by President of Baylor Miss Martha Hardy 

Benediction and Recessional. 

This program was prepared by the Juric'r Class. 

February 1 , 2020 

Hardy Amphitheatre 
Processional 
Invocation by Dr. Beaty Carson, representing his grandmother 

who was first Student Secretary 
Reception of class of 2020 into Alumnae Association 

Miss Amy Wade Blaire of Hawaii 
Orchestra composed of two hundred instruments 

Lead by Music Director Dr. Jeanes Lovette 
Fifty million Endowment Fund 

Miss Ina Johnson Clark of China 
Baylor Institutions throughout the Planets 

Dr. Joseph Robert Hardy Jr., of Mars 

Vocal Solo Our Baylor 

Miss Zula Sibley Kirkpatrick of Alaska 
Five Million Baylor Daughters. Their achievements in Missions 

Miss Zemma Hare Rush of China 
Announcements by Secretary of Alumnae Association 

Miss Camelle Sevier Wray 
Presentation of Baylor's one hundred and seventy-five year History 

Miss Birdie Lawrence Reed 
Announcements of Students League 

Miss Mary Wilson White 
Benediction by Dr. Mihills Worth of Australia grandson of the 

famous Eaylor daughter, Mildred Mihills 
This program was prepared by the Junior Class. 



It is our custom to use such forward looking programs as these 
to give us a definite goal toward which to work. 



Page two hundred and ninetv-four 




PART THREE 

Diamond Jubilee Celebration 

Appeals 

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Page two hundred and ninety-seven 



Foreword to Baylor's Jubilee 



The introduction to the first part of this book tells of the Seventy-fifth Anniversary 
of four great events and gives a glimpse of national, state, church, and school life, as 
these forces united, each giving its part to that wonderful year, 1845. 

In this introduction to part three, we shall call attention to twelve great events of 
which this year, 192 0, is the anniversary. 

The five hundredth anniversary of the martyrdom of John Huss was to have been 
celebrated in 1915, but war conditions prevented, and not until July of this year, 1920, 
was the death of the great reformer and martyr commemorated. In the presence of a 
great assembly, near the historic Bethlehem Chapel where he so bravely preached 
against Roman tyranny and proclaimed the gospel of soul liberty, the services were 
conducted. What a blaze those faggots kindled five hundred years ago! (It was June 
6, 1415.) 

It was in 1520, four hundred years ago, that Martin Luther began his reformation. 
His voice rang out in defiance of church and state, and forever, will this bold reformer 
be acknowledged as a strong deliverer, in time of dire necessity. The conquest of 
Mexico by the Spaniards was also in this same year, 152 0. Thus we see that, while 
the yoke of Catholic oppression began to be broken in Europe, it was fastening its fangs 
on the free, simple, nature-worshipping Indians of this New Continent. 

The year 192 is, to us, the most significant historically. Besides our own Jubilee, 
it marks the three hundreth anniversary of three important events, two of which led 
to the founding of the Republic of the United States of America. One is the signing 
of the Mayflower compact and the landing of the Pilgrims; the other is the first American 
Legislative Assembly. This year (1920) these events were commemorated in the United 
States and in England and Holland. The third event stands out in painful contrast CO 
religious and political liberty because it marks the landing of the first African slaves 
on our free shores; the darkest blot on our Nation's early history. 

After three hundred years Baylor sends her first missionaries to Africa. 

In 1720, the great "South Sea Bubble" threw the English financial world into a 
panic, and the fortunes of many a good man into ruin. That year saw the establish- 
ment of the first and most noted Spanish Mission at San Antonio. 

Again, another century brings the world to 182 0, and on the twelfth of May was 
born a little baby girl, the power of whose life has been felt from ocean to ocean, from 
pole to pole; wherever civilized man has been cursed by "war's dread confusion." Who 
knows not the name of Florence Nigtingale, the first army nurse, alike to friend 
and foe, the mother of modern nursing for the relief of human suffering! 

The same year, Moses Austin arrived in San Antonio, making the appeal of his soul 
for his grant of land. This seems to have been God's first step towards delivering 
Texas from priest-ridden, Mexican domination. 

One hundred years later, 1920, is the fortieth anniversary of Baylor College wom- 
en's entrance into foreign mission fields. Texas was, for the first thirty-five years of 
Baylor's life, so much of a mission field herself, that our school did not send a mis- 
sionary beyond her borders during that first generation of her existence. It was just 
as it should be, however, that Baylor College sent one of her teachers, Miss Annie 
Luther, later Mrs. W. B. Bagby, to be the first woman from Texas to the foreign fields. 
In 1880, the Texas Baptist Women inaugurated their statewide organization. At the 
same session of the convention, at the same hour, in the same building, the old state 
capitol, the Mission Board examined and appointed Miss Annie Luther to foreign mis- 
sion work. She and Reverend W. B. Bagby were married soon after, and sailed for 
Brazil, where they have richly invested their lives for Christ and have opened a conti- 
nent to evangelical Christianity and progressive civilization. 

We have in Texas at this anniversary three generations of this Luther-Bagby fami- 
ly, the parent couple, their three daughters and the three little grand children. The 
oldest daughter, Mrs. Ermine Bagby Sowell, and husband, Reverend Sowell, are our 
pioneer missionaries to Argentina. They and their three children are taking a needed 
rest in the home land. Miss Alice Bagby, after seven years preparation, is now returning 
to her native land to become dean of the Baptist College in Brazil, which her parents 
have founded in Sao Paulo. They lovingly call this college the "Baylor of the Southern 
Cross." Miss Helen Bagby finishes her course in Baylor next year and looks happily 
forward to the time when she too, will devote her gifted young life to South America. 
It all seems ordered from above that we should have, as a concrete example of the 
results of Christian Education, this family take part in our Diamond Jubilee. 

In 1920, the first wireless message girded the globe. Baylor College sent her 
foreign missionaries to Asia, Africa and South America, and to the Islands of the Sea; 
to the black, yellow and white races. Certainly the march of time through the years 
of the centuries has made this year, 192 0, a station from which to reckon and to turn. 



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Speakers at Jubilee 




Dr. Lee Scarbough 




Dr. W. M. W. 

Splawn 




Dr. S. P. Brooks 




Dr. Geo. W. Truett 




Dr. O. H. Cooper 




Dr. J. M. Carroll 



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The Baylor College Diamond 
Jubilee, 1920 



The program of Baylor's celebration of her Diamond Jubilee be- 
gan on February 1, 1920, seventy-five years from the date on which 
she received her charter from the Republic of Texas. 

It has been a custom of the Alumnae Association to extend a wel- 
come to the Senior Class on Charter Day. On this day, Mrs. Martha 
Dowell Maiden of Kansas City, the President of the Association, in 
her address expressed the hope of the alumnae that Baylor's daughters 
of 1920 might have strength of heart because their hearts are pure; 
that they might be so rooted and grounded in eternal principles that 
they will be able to avoid the foolish and hurtful sins of the day; that 
they might walk with their faces to the light, lending deaf ears to the 
so-called New Theology, the curse of the doctrine of Unitarianism, to 
gross materialism, to the Inter-Church Movement; and that each 
might catch the vision of the wonders and glories and possibilities of 
Christian Education and be ardent champions of that cause through- 
out life. The general Jubilee theme,, "The Progress of Christian Edu- 
cation" glowed in her message. 

Among the splendid talks made by different members of the class 
was one of special note. Miss Ada Cates gave an outline of 
the plans and achievements of the class. The 1920 class, appreciating 
the fact that they were the inheritors of seventy-five years of the Chris- 
tian influence and training in Baylor had nobly done their part in 
pledging three thousand dollars to the Seventy-five Million Campaign. 
When Freshmen in 1916, the class established the Freshman Scholar- 
ship Fund, a sum of two hundred dollars to be raised each year by the 
Freshman Class and loaned to one of their number who could not other- 
wise remain in school. The plan has been used by the three other 
Freshmen classes following. 

The four girls honored as the recipients of the scholarship fund 
were then presented, Misses Ovilla Wood, Eula Ham, Evelyn Dawson 
and Gladys Joseph. Each expressed her appreciation of the honor and 
favor bestowed on her, and voiced her earnest desire to prove herself 
worthy. Four diamond gifts for the Jubilee! May they justify the 
simile by the sparkling light they shall give out to the world! 

As the desire of the Student League has been to send out seventy- 
five missionaries during the next five years, it was eminently fitting 
that on this occasion Miss Nannie David should be present and should 
speak her heart's plea for Africa. Miss David was born in Africa, edu- 
cated in Baylor and graduated as a nurse from the Baptist Sanitarium 
in Houston. The aim of her life from early childhood has been to 
serve Christ in the Dark Continent. She sailed for Africa last August. 

Late in the spring, came the following invitation from the beloved 
Baylor University. 



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The President and the Board of Trustees 
of 

founded by Baptist Educators 

and chartered under the republic of Texas 

in eighteen hundred and forty-five 

request the honor of the presence of a representative 

from 

to be a guest of 

for the annual commencement at Waco, Texas 

the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth days 

of June, nineteen hundred and twenty 

upon which occasion will be celebrated 

with appropriate exercises 

the University's 
seventy-fifth anniversary 



founded in 18 45 at Independence 

under the republic of Texas 

Pro Ecclesia Pro Texana 

<&i Wntxt 

College of Arts and Sciences 
School of Fine Arts 
Department of Law 

£»t Dallas 

College of Medicine and Dentistry 
School of Pharmacy 

(Seal) 
SAMUEL PALMER BROOKS, D. D., LL. D., President 

WACO, TEXAS 



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These two great institutions, inseparably united not only by con- 
ception and birth and the sacrificial labor of the great men of 184 5, but 
by common ideals and purposes, sought to unite as far as practicable in 
the Jubilee Celebration. From June, the fourth to the eighth at Bel- 
ton, and from June, the twelfth to the sixteenth, at Waco, Baylor Col- 
lege and Baylor University joined hands in glad rejoicing. The gener- 
al theme, "The Progress of Christian Education through Seventy-five 
Years of History" was observed in both celebrations. 

The following is the program for Baylor College Commencement 
Exercises: 

June 4 — Friday Evening: 
Academy Graduation Exercises. 
Address by Mr. W. M. W. Splawn. 

June 5 — Saturday Morning: 
Art and Home Economics Exhibit. 
Inter-Society Debate. 
Music. 

June 5 — Saturday Evening: 
Musical by Orchestra and Choral Club. 

June 6 — Sunday Morning: 
Commencement Sermon by Dr. George W. Truett. 

June 6 — Sunday Evening: 
Vesper Services. 
Missionary Sermon by Dr. J. M. Carroll. 

June 7 — Monday Morning: 
Class Day Exercise. 

Home Coming Addresses by Dr. S. P. Brooks and Mrs. E. G. Town- 
send. 

Presentation of Bust of Robert E. Lee. 
June 7 — Afternoon: 
Business Meeting of Alumnae and Student League. 
Alumnae Banquet. 

June 7 — Evening: 
Concert by Music Department. 

June 8 — Tuesday: 
Commencement Exercises. 

Address Dr. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education. 

The gatherings of the alumna on Home-Coming Day and at the ban- 
quet on Monday evening were occasions in which the true "Baylor 
Spirit" held sway. On the platform Monday sat an historical group 
connecting the Baylor of today with the Baylor of yesterday by means 
of representatives of former presidents and trustees, the students and 
teachers of other days. Mrs. Elli Moore Townsend, whose connection 
with Baylor has been continuous for forty-five years gave a most in- 
teresting address, indicating the relation each person present bore to 
the College. 

The Banquet Hall again called forth reminiscences touching and 
inspiring. Mrs. R. K. Maiden, President of the Alumnae Association 
and Toastmistress on this occasion, was connected with the college as 
student and teacher for twenty-five years. Many happy toasts were 
offered such as, "Last Days in the Old Chapel" by Hazel Kendrick 
Genheimer, '07, "First Commencement in Alma Reeves Chapel" by 
Winnie Cain Reed, '08, "First Home-Coming" by Lora Lee Andrews, 
'09, "Second Home-Coming" by Elli Whitfield Strickland, '12, "Third 
Home-Coming" by Ivy Gravett, '16. Dr. T. S. Lovette toasted "Music 
m Baylor" and Mrs. J. D. Sanderfer "Our Texas Baptist Schools." Of 
special interest was a toast to "Baylor in the Land of the Southern 
Cross" by Ermine Bagby Sowell, '03, and one to "Baylor in the Train- 
ing School" by Mrs. J. W. Byars. Several other toasts follow. 



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THE GOLDEN JUBILEE CLASS 

By Einiiui O. King. 

Madam Toastmistress and Baylor Friends: 

"All that is good shall abide" — Out of the past, memory treasures 
scenes that are best and most beautiful; so, out of the many notable 
days of Baylor history, we cherish the associations of the year of the 
Golden Jubilee. First comes the thought of him who, although 
weighted by college cares, heard the song of laughter, and made us, 
the students, hear the song; whG showed us God's footprints on the 
stones and His hands among the flowers. Today we would express 
our appreciation of the gracious inspiring, unending influence from 
the life of our then President, Dr. E. H. Wells. 

The Jubilee Celebration, itself, can never be forgotten. Dr. 
Truett, at that time himself a college student, delivered the Baccalau- 
reate sermon. Again at the Baccalaureate sermon of the Diamond 
Jubilee we have heard his plea for Christian service. We rejoice that 
the years have brought him strength and honor, and have added to the 
faith and spiritual power of twenty-five years ago. 

On the occasion of our Golden Jubilee, ex-president Horace Clark 
and Dr. Rufus C. Burleson met for the last time. Dr. Clark delivered 
the principal address. Among those who heard his words of wisdom 
were some who had been his students a quarter of a century before. 
Others were present who were associated with even earlier Baylor 
days. 

That Golden Jubilee was a time of glad reunion. It made the 
students of that year wonder if they would ever return to take part in 
some later notable celebration. 

"The whirling of time" has brought us to this auspicious occasion. 
We greet the friends of long ago, we yearn for faces that are not here, 
and we rejoice in all the splendid development that has come to Baylor 
in the "years between" the Jubilees. The gold must be the setting for 
the diamond. Without the foundation there is not the pinnacle. I 
would then pay my tribute to the men who wrought the Golden Jubilee, 
and who, in spirit at least, touch hands with the noble men and women 
who are placing the diamonds in Baylor's golden crown. 



THE DIAMOND JUBILEE CLASS 

By Paul C. Porter. 

Unquestionably history and tradition give to an institute an at- 
mosphere that cannot be found in the newly organized colleges. The 
spirit of these who have worked for Baylor College shall never die. 
Every student who enters her walls shares in her history and imbides 
more or less her spirit. How true this must be of the Diamond Jubilee 
Class of whom we can certainly expect great things. Native ability, 
training and culture are all theirs, yet these alone do not make up the 
class. 

More than culture, beauty, native ability is required to make up 
the Jubilee Class. It takes the spirit of Baylor College. God has 
done His part to endow each member with ability and character. The 
fact that she is in the Diamond Jubilee Class should give her an am- 
bition to be worthy of the distinguished position of honor which she 
occupies. 

Let the Diamond Jubilee Class not think to rest on what they have 
already accomplished. Let them go out as teachers, missionaries, 
home builders, and ever remember that they have a high standard to 
uphold. They, above all other, represent Baylor College — Baylor Col- 
lege in the seventy-fifth year of her service to Texas and the world, 
and above all else transfer the Spirit of Baylor with all her glory and 
history — the spirit of self-sacrifice, of service, the spirit of Christiani- 
ty — not until then will they have proved themselves worthy members 
of the Diamond Jubilee Class. 



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The Baylors 

By O. H. Cooper. 

The Republic of Texas was born during the years of the "Great 
Awakening in Education" projected in New England by Horace Mann 
and Henry Bennard. In its birth, Texas was dedicated to freedom and 
education. But the ideal of universal education of which the fathers 
of Texas had the vision was not immediately realized. Sparseness of 
population and the struggle for existence deferred for many years 
their early hopes. Then it was the heroic pioneers of the Cross began 
their great work. Huckins and Tryon and Baylor, and their associates, 
men of faith and initiative, realized that both civic loyalty, and relig- 
ious zeal, demanded the establishment in the new nation of institu- 
tions for higher education to fit the youth of the land for the best ser- 
vice to Church and State. Baylor University and Baylor Female Col- 
lege were planned in the days of the Republic and were ready for ser- 
vice when Texas passed from Independence into statehood. 

Thence onward for three quarters of a century, while colleges and 
universities by the score rose and fell, these institutions have continued 
their benificent work for Texas and for Christ, enlisting the interest 
and support of the lovers of progress and supplying the leaders in civic 
and religious life. During the great part of the history of the State 
these noble institutions have been virtually the University of Texas. 

During the last quarter of the nineteenth century and in the early 
years of the twentieth century other strong institutions have arisen; 
State, denominational, and independent, but all recognize the unique 
service of the Baylors and are glad to do them honor. They have ele- 
ments of power in their ideals, and in their alumni, that give them a 
permanent place in the ranks of Baptist Texas Education. 



Impressions of the Jubilee 
Commencement 

By W. H. Vann. 

To a stranger sojourning in the college community, those com- 
mencement days, the Diamond Jubilee Celebration, must have pre- 
sented some interesting features. 

He must have caught, first of all, something of the "Baylor spir- 
it" — that indefinable something about the institution which rather de- 
fies analysis, which is felt rather than understood, and which results 
in that loyal devotion of its daughters to the college and the principles 
for which it stands. This spirit found its best expression publicly in 
the Inter-Society Debate Saturday morning, and the various exercises 
of Alumnae Day on Monday. But it could be felt everywhere: in the 
glad greetings of the returning alumnae, the intimate relation between 
teachers and students, old and new alike, the cordial welcome to visit- 
ing speakers, and the general air of informal good fellowship. 

The sermons and addresses by which the commencement was en- 
riched would have been notable on any such occasion. Professor 
Splawn, returning to the institution which he had done so much to help 
build up, brought the graduating class of the Academy the discussion 
of an old theme, physical training, but with a freshness and originality 
which emphasized anew the importance of body-building in the scheme 



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of education. The baccalaureate sermon by Dr. Truett was an im- 
pressive presentation of vital principles of Christian service, marked by 
that deep spirituality which characterizes all of his great messages. It 
was Dr. Truett at his best. Dr. Carroll's sermon showed clearly, in 
the light of early Texas Baptist history, the missionary motive of the 
denomination, and pointed out the fundamentals of the missionary 
program. The homecoming address by Dr. Brooks brought appropri- 
ate greetings from Baylor University; he treated in a simple but effec- 
tive way the theme of motherhood, and the relation of the alumnae to 
their Alma Mater. And as a fitting climax came the baccalaureate 
address by Dr. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education. It 
was comprehensive survey of present world problems following in the 
wake of the war, emphasizing education as the surest solution of these 
problems, and calling upon the young women of the graduating class 
to play their part in the new world program. 

A visitor would have enjoyed also the recitals by the students of 
music and expression, the exhibitions of painting, drawing, and other 
forms of art, and the display of culinary skill and hand-made garments, 
all of which gave evidence of the high grade of work done in these 
special departments. And he would have listened with keen interest 
to the inter-society debate. The fine manifestation of healthy rivalry 
in the songs and yells was a fitting prelude to the combat of wits which 
followed. The young ladies showed a knowledge of the subject and 
skill in presentation which indicated that the woman of today not onlv 
possesses those accomplishments peculiar to her sex, but is prepared 
to take part in the world of politics. 

Only an alumna, however, familiar with the situation, could 
have appreciated the significance of the action taken by the alumnae 
at their meeting on Monday. Plans were laid here for the active prose- 
cution of the endowment campaign. The spirit in which this was un- 
dertaken, and the employment of two of the most capable of the young- 
er alumnae, Misses Lois Pipkin and Maurine Griffis to have active 
charge of it, make certain the success of this movement which will in- 
sure the future of the institution. 

While the occasion was largely reminiscent, one could not but feel 
also the spirit of prophecy. Stronger even than the glory of the past 
looms the promise of the future. The handsome new buildings going 
up on the campus, the rapid increase in the number of students, and 
the plans for endowment and additional equipment, are evidence of the 
larger sphere of usefulness which is before her; and in the years to 
come Baylor College shall be the embodiment of education of young 
women in the spirit of Christian democracy. 



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My Impressions of the Diamond Jubilee 

By Lois Pipkin. 

I think I shall never get away from the uplift which I received at 
Baylor College during the Diamond Jubilee Commencement exercises. 
The throng of loyal home-comers seemed united by a common purpose, 
— that of paying loving tribute to the institution which has so efficient- 
ly served its students and humanity in general for seventy-five years. 
It seemed that the whole commencement program was presented, so to 
speak with the inspiring background of Baylor's honored dead and their 
courageous achievements, so often wrought under the most trying cir- 
cumstances. 

The phase of the celebration which impressed me most forcibly, 
perhaps, was the loyalty shown on all occasions by alumnae and all 
former students. I had occasion to notice this particularly in connec- 
tion with the Student League activities. A generous response came 



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from those present toward inaugurating the Million Dollar Endowment 
Campaign and testimonies of continued loyalty and allegiance were 
heard on all sides. When the needs of our College were presented at 
the Student League meeting, it seemed that the heartstrings of every 
Baylor girl present were being played upon. 

Every alumna in attendance was made to feel proud of her col- 
lege, and feel deep joy in the rapid progress that is being made in all 
lines. The new buildings which seem to be literally springing up on 
all parts of the campus are in themselves an inspiration. All praise in 
due our president, our board of trustees and our faculty. 

The history of our Baylor has to this point been a glorious one. 
She has developed along with the Lone Star State, experiencing priva- 
tions and prosperity with her. Her future is yet to be determined. 
Her character to a great extent is in the hands of Baylor Alumnae and 
ex-students. Let us resolve that the heritage which has come to us 
shall be enriched; that the achievements of the illustrations dead shall 
be built upon. 

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The Jubilee in 
Perspective 



Mildred Mihills 
Chairman Prlgram 

Committee By Mildred Mihills. 

As a traA^eler, after passing, turns to view again from a distance 
a lovely scene, so I turn, after some months, to visualize Baylor Dia- 
mond Jubilee Celebration in dear Alma Reeves Chapel. 

I see again the interesting celebrities of Independence days so 
charmingly presented by the greatest celebrity of them all; the group 
of Baylor's heroines of the Cross returned to bear witness of the on- 
ward march of the Gospel among the peoples of the earth; the Baptist 
recorder of events in the progress of Christian Education in our own 
state; and foremost among these the great-souled minister of God 
with his thrilling, inspiring message. All about me were Baylor's 
daughters of the past and present, and over all a sense of Heavenly 
peace and benediction. 

At such times, there are born in the hearts of men and women 
those visions that have ever been the source of the power to accom- 
plish great things. How many visions came into being on that glor- 
ious morning! How many hearts were stirred with the overpowering- 
desire to hasten the day of Baylor's full complete preparedness for her 
Gocl-appointed task! 

To me there came a glimpse of the imposing buildings and beau- 
tiful grounds, the dwelling place of a Greater Baylor, made possible 
by the gifts and loving labors of the daughters and friends of this 
noble institution. 



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The Three- Fold Problems of 
Spiritual Leadership 

L. It. Scarborough. 

From every section comes a demand for trained, efficient leaders. 
The supply is not increasing fast enough to take care of the demand 
This article is meant to call the prayerful attention of Southern Bap- 
tists to this important matter. There are three phases of this ques- 
tion which should receive our considerate attention. 

THE SUPPLY. 

We are wholly dependent in the initiatory stages upon God for 
the supply. God must call special workers or we will never get the 
right sort. All that is written in this article is based on a confidential 
belief in the doctrine that God must call our workers and set them 
apart to their task. I believe he is calling in large numbers. More 
than 6,500 responded to the call for special service with one concerted 
effort on the part of the Southern Baptists last October. Many letters 
to the writer indicate that many others are considering God's call. 
For twenty years I have not made a call for volunteers in any congre- 
gation that somebody did not respond. There are literally thousands 
of strong men and women in our churches today fighting the call of 
God for special service. The demonstration needs to be aroused to 
a sense of its duty to fairly, persistently and constantly press the call 
of God and the need of workers upon the hearts of our young people 
in our churches. The Conservation Commission had recommended 
that we set apart each year a day in our schools and a day in our 
churches for the calling out of the called. We must not CALL work- 
ers but we must CALL THEM OUT into the service after God has called 
them. 

THEIR PREPARATION AND 31AINTENANCE IN PREPARATION. 

The second great problem confronting the question of leadership 
is the education and special training of those whom God has called. 
In this day our leaders must be educated and trained. One of the 
primary motives in all churches, is the training of special workers and 
leaders in the Kingdom of God. The founders of all of our church 
schools had this primary matter in mind when they started our 
schools. The 111 Baptist schools of the South stand for the education 
and training of special workers. The basic motive in a Baptist school 
is to train leaders for the churches in the Kingdom of God, in pulpix 
and pew. Our two seminaries, our two woman's Training Schools and 
our Baptist Bible Institute are the five great training camps for 
Southern Baptists. The denomination is coming to the view of ade- 
quately equipping these schools for their largest service. There can 
be no question as to the need of training and educational equipment 
for these leaders. But a big question is that of support while they 
seek an education. Practically all the called are poor and cannot 
educate themselves without prolonged and almost unbearable hard- 
ships and sacrifices. The denomination must make larger and more 
adequate provisions for the support of our especially called workers 
while they are in school. We must enlarge our student's funds, schol- 
arships and loan funds and other provisions for the support of these 
students. 

The Conservation Commission has taken strong grounds and 
made vital recommendations concerning this matter. The State 
boards in each Southern State should make our mission or education 
funds adequate for the encouragement and support of worthy men 



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and women called of God for special service. There is no better in- 
vestment the denomination can make than in the heart and head and 
training of a God-called worker for special service. It is a contribu- 
tion to everything that is good in the Kingdom of God. If taxation 
for education looking to citizenship is justified and approved by God 
and the denomination, the pittance and meagre and uncertain support 
we have been offering to our young missionaries while struggling 
through school is unpardonable. We simply must, out of the dire ne- 
cessity of the suffering Kingdom of God, take a larger and more lib- 
eral view of this great question. Great caution and care should be 
exercised in the administration of these funds for the education of our 
missionaries, and we must stand by the thousands of worthy men and 
women who are kept out of school because of the great financial diffi- 
culty and sacrifice involved in getting an education. We must pres^ 
with all our souls the importance of this matter upon the denomina- 
tion. 

THEIR PROPER SUPPORT. 

Another matter of great and vital importance is the proper sup- 
port of the workers in Christ's Kingdom. There are many signs of 
an awakening along this line. Many churches, city and country, are 
coming to a more adequate support of their workers. We must pay 
our missionaries more, our teachers in denominational schools more, 
and provide a larger financial support for the other special workers 
whom we are calling out for church and Kingdom service. I believe 
provision should be made for these workers to meet the necessities of 
life with a surplus enough to buy books, to go to inspirational and 
educational conferences, to enable them to give in a satisfactory way 
to the Kingdom of God, and to pay insurance, thus providing for 
themselves when old age and decrepitude come. The Conservation 
Commission will do its best to press this matter upon the consciences 
of the men and women of our churches until a better support is of- 
fered to our leaders. We must pay our spiritual leaders more. 

Not to provide for the education of our missionaries is worse than 
a Kingdom tragedy. We must earnestly urge that the denominational 
forces take up these matters and render to God and the brotherhood a 
worthy account of their stewardship. My soul aches as I am having 
to answer hundreds of letters voicing the call of churches for assist- 
ants, mission boards, and agencies for workers of all sorts, and we 
are unable to supply the demand. May God help us to "pray the Lord 
of the harvest to send forth more laborers into his harvest," to call 
out the called, to adequately support the called as they prepare for 
service and give to these who are in the service an adequate support 
while they live the sacrificial life of Jesus Christ. 

O 



The Student League Appeal 

The relation between education and missions is a vital one. The 
history of missions shows that its great onward movement have, for 
the most part, had their origin in educational institutions. It was 
while students met in a prayer-meeting behind a hay stack at Andover 
that the first American foreign missionaries consecrated themselves 
to mission work. The right kind of education produces missionary 
results. 

It is also true that our most efficient missionaries have been edu- 
cated men and women. Count Zinzendorf, the founder of Moravian 
Missions, was educated at Halle and Wittenburg. The Wesleys were 
Oxford men. John Elliott, the apostle to the Indians, graduated from 
Cambridge. Adoniram Judson was a college product. William 
Carey was a master of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Dutch and French be- 
fore he went on the foreign field. 



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In fact, it has been found unwise to send out missionaries with- 
out thorough preparation. Eduction acquaints the missionary with 
the racial peculiarities of the people among whom he is to labor, their 
religious ideas and customs, and enables him to find a point of contact 
so that he may the more effectively present Christ. The missionary 
should have not only a sympathetic heart, a deep piety and consecrated 
love for souls, but he should have a keen, well-trained intellect. 

One of the objects of the Student League of Baylor College is the 
raising of an endowment which will provide the necessary funds for 
educating the young women who are called of God to give their lives 
to missionary endeavor in foreign lands. During the Seventy-five 
Million Campaign, it was estimated that some six thousand Baptist 
students in the South consecrated themselves to the ministry and to 
missionary work. These must be educated and equipped for service 
before they can hope to become efficient in their life work. Is it not 
wise from an economical as well as a religious standpoint that we who 
stay at home shall release those who are called to the front, of their 
debts and let them go to their work at the earliest possible time in- 
stead of allowing them to struggle with debt for two to ten of the best 
years of their lives? So it has seemed to the Student League; hence, 
their efforts for the endowmnt. While this endowment is accruing, 
there is urgent need that something be done for the young women 
who are anxious to answer the call now and are ready to go except for 
few hundred dollars of debt made in their years in college and Train- 
ing School During this Jubilee year eight of our graduates have ac- 
cepted appointments to mission work. Misses Minnie Cochran, Mary 
Grain, Cornelia Howell and Mrs. Effie Satterwhite Henry are under 
the Home Board and Misses Zemma Hare, Alice Bagby, Nannie David 
and Mildred Mihills are under the Foreign Board. 

This work of the Student League is the altruistic expression of 
Christian Education. During the past seventy-five years, there has 
developed in our Baylor a consciousness of duty to God, not only as 
regards personal service in church and co-operation in the work of the 
Convention for support of the missionaries at home and abroad but a 
duty to God also in supporting and educating the called that they may 
the sooner go to their life's work. 

Daughters of Baylor College, seventy-five years of history look 
down upon us. Do we really appreciate our rich heritage as we 
should? Let us revere the names and deeds of the past and treasure 
the traditions handed down to us. The story of the sacrifices which 
our fathers made, the hardships they endured that we might have the 
privileges we now enjoy is far more inspiring than any other story of 
lands and cattle and gold. 

The past demanded men who were willing to die for Christianity, 
for missions, for Christian Education; but the present calls for those 
who will live for the glory of the ages yet to be. 



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The Psychological Hour Now Striking for 
Endowment of Baylor College 

By President J. C. Hardy. 

We are all familiar with the quotation, "There is a tide in the af- 
fairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune." The eter- 
nal truth of this quotation applies with equal force to institutions. 
The tide in the affairs of Baylor College is now rising high, but for 
it to lead on to fortune, these prosperous times in which we are now 
living must be seized by all friends as the psychological hour in which 
to begin a substantial movement for an ample endowment for the 
college. 

To conserve an endowment is absolutely essential to secure the 
future of Baylor College. This endowment is the supreme need at 
this time and this is the hour in which to begin the work. The people 
have the money, and the war has taught them to give liberally. Peo- 
ple realize as never before the need and importance of Christian Edu- 
cation. The forces that must direct the reconstruction of the world 
must come out of the Christian colleges. The people realize too, as 
never before that this age into which we are about to enter is to be 
not only the Age of Democracy and the Age of Woman. So our col- 
leges for women must largely assume the responsibility of training our 
girls and young women for these important duties and obligations. 

No college in America is making such progress as Baylor. The 
denomination has begun in a great way to make provision for her im- 
mediate needs in the way of buildings and equipment. Six perma- 
nent dormitories, a Science Hall, and Administration Building and a 
heating plant are now complete. A Fine Arts Building, a Library, a 
Sanitarium and a Gymnasium must be provided in the near future. 
With an enrollment of more than thirteen hundred students from 
twenty states and six foreign countries, the demand is on us for an en- 
dowment. Let our friends seize this psychological moment and launch 
a great campaign for Baylor College endowment. The Lord will bless 
us in this undertaking. 



A Great Endowment for "Our Baylor" 

Baylor College is the Poem of Texas Baptists. May it become an 
Epic. It expresses a thought and purpose that has been growing 
through the years since Texas merged her single star into the Stars 
and Stripes. 

Baylor desires to train her girls for world service. She is a gar- 
den in which Womanhood is to be cultivated, a place where woman 
may throw aside the trivial, the commonplace, and the worthless and 
don the serious, the loving, and enobling qualities. Woman is espec- 
ially gifted in the arts of teaching and healing. With her sympathetic 
qualities and her natural aptitude for training the young, she is de- 
signed as much to be a teacher and missionary as she is to be a mother. 
The hope of Baylor is to send a missionary to every land where ignor- 
ance reigns to destroy both body and soul, that she may minister to re- 
lieve the disease-stricken and feed souls hungering for the Bread of 
Life. 

This is why we want to endow Baylor College — that wherever our 
United States sends a ship; or raises our flag over a consulate, there 
may be also a Baylor girl to publish the glad tidings of the Gospel. 
"An Endowed Baylor endows the World." 

ETHEL LEE SCOTT, '98. 

Page three hundred and ten 




BURT HAM;. CAPACITY 225. 
The large, palacial dormitory made possible by the gracious gift of Mr. and Mrs. 
R. E. Burt 







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RUTH STRIBUING HAUL, CAPACITY 185. 
The second spacious brick hall in the Cottage Home System of dormitories, made 
possible by the gift of J. C. Stribling, and named in honor of his daughter, Ruth Strib- 
ling Fowler, former student of Baylor College. 




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SCIENCE HAI/L. 

Named for the great pioneer of science teachers in Baylor, Dr. E. H. Wells, who 
lived and wrought here for twenty years. 




HEARD HALL, CAPACITY 90. 
This first building completed for the Jubilee Year stands as a mark of friendship of 
the beloved Mrs. Nannie E. Heard. 




POST OFFICE. 

Station A, Beiton, Texas, established in the 



spring of our Jubilee Year. 



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POWER PLANT, VALUE $77,000 
Th,s plant may not loom high, but it is the source of great power on the campus. 



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Baylor College halls have sheltered some of the South's wealth- 
iest and most highly cultured daughters, but the institution is too 
democratic to foster an exclusive school for the elite alone. It has 
been from the beginning a Mecca for the ambitious girls of more mod- 
erate means. The rich cared for their own, but Baylor College could 
not turn a deaf ear to those who desired to make a way for themselves. 
In order to give these girls a chance to fight their way through, and 
a fight it often is, Baylor must call for funds from generous-hearted 
friends. 

Baylor Student League is making an effort to realize the situation 
by endowment. It is hoped by this means, in this, the greatest year 
of Baylor's history, to give each Baylor girl and each friend of Baylor 
a chance to have a part in the most enduring benefit that can be given 
to her, an endowment. 

No one can tell how long the era of reconstruction will last, nor 
how much greater will become the wave of worldliness that is sweep- 
ing so many before it; but one thing is certain, those who stand firm 
amid confusion and strife, giving themselves and their means for God 
and humanity shall receive the welcome plaudit "Well done, good and 
faithful servant." 

With each shoulder to the wheel, we can raise the endowment and 
Baylor College will be recognized not only as the largest school for 
young women in the Southwest, but the greatest in all our Southland 
"An Endowed Baylor Endows the World." 

— NELLIE DERRICK BOUNDS, '12. 



Our college has not the name and fame of other institutions. Vas- 
sar College opened for students in 1865, only one year before Baylor 
College received its independent charter. Yet Vassar and other col- 
leges hold out an attractiveness that our Southern college does not 
possess. This is chiefly because through past years these colleges in 
the North have been receiving gifts of money for endowment and 
building purposes which have enabled them to supply themselves with 
magnificent dormitories, gymnasiums, libraries, class rooms, well 
kept grounds, so that they are prepared to appeal to young women as 
attractive in every particular. 

Often, as in the evening, I come up the hill that leads to our col- 
lege, I think of Shakespeare's line, "New lighted on a heaven kissing 
hill." All the surroundings are beautiful. Nature has done her best. 
Tears and prayers and love from our fathers have gone into the build- 
ing of Baylor College. All who will help with endowment now will 
join hands with those builders in making her a vigorous, winning 
power in Christ's kingdom on Earth. "An Endowed Baylor Endows 
the World." — EMMA C. KING, '96. 



Queens are in demand for individual homes; missionaries are 
needed for foreign lands; wives, helpers for men who are to take the 
gospel of the Blessed God to the Texas border; Bible women for our 
cities and trained and equipped for efficient work. 

Christian men and women, is there room in the watchtower suffi- 
cient to meet the increasing demands of this empire State? 

Alumnae student of Baylor, sister to your fellow-student, one of 
the oldest living students calls to those who man the watchtower, 
Watchman, what of the night? If they respond, and respond they 
must — The Morning Cometh, we, with friends, old and new, must ral- 
ly to secure money to pay present indebtedness, enlarge the buildings, 
beautify the approaches and furnish every department with the most 
improved and first-class equipments, that Baylor may be the grandest, 
as well as oldest, in service. 

While we march forward to this splendid realization of lofty 
ideals, we will have traced with threads of gold on a banner of virgin 
whiteness "Honor to our King," and on the triumphal day raise the en- 
sign to the top of the loftiest battlement that it may float day and 
night 'till Jesus comes. — MRS. G. B. DAVIS, Pres. Texas W. M. U. 



Page three hundred and eleven 



Baylor's Supreme Need 

William Harvey Van. 

Baylor College has been richly blessed the past few years, both 
spiritually and materially. Few institutions have its advantages of 
location, physical equipment, strong teaching force and fine student 
body. Its department of fine arts is recognized as being the equal of 
any in the Southwest; and its academy is the only institution in the 
State where a student can obtain the best of secondary school training 
in a college atmosphere. Best of all, it has the "Baylor spirit," educa- 
tion under the impulse of Christian democracy. 

But one thing is lacking. Heretofore too many students have 
come to Baylor for one or two years of college work, but gone else- 
where for their degree. The chief reason for this is, that our degree 
has not yet been generally recognized as of equal value with that of 
the University of Texas, and one or two other institutions in the State. 
That the training received here is substantially the same as that in 
these other colleges, and, indeed, far above that afforded in most 
Southern colleges for women, few who are competent to judge would 
dispute. Baylor's supreme need, then, is to gain the recognition of 
our college work as being equal to that of any first-class college; and 
this can best be accomplished by securing admission into the Southern 
Association of Colleges. 

What, then, is necessary to obtain admission into this association? 
In only two particulars do we fail to measure up to their standard — 
endowment and library. The movement for an enlarged endowment 
is already under way, with every prospect of success; but the question 
of a library is still uncertain. A gift that would provide for adequate 
library facilities would be the greatest aid that anyone could possibly 
render to Baylor, because it is at present her greatest need. Even a 
temporary building, to accommodate the college library separately 
and house the necessary number of additional books, would be suffi- 
cient to meet the requirements of the Southern Association, for a few 
3'ears at least, until a permanent library can be erected. 

With admission into this association, all doubts of students as to 
the value of a Baylor degree would be removed. They would stay on 
here for their degree, and going out as graduates instead of Freshmen 
or Sophomores, would be of much greater value to the institution. 
Recognition by the Southern Association of Colleges would also mean 
recognition by the General Education Board and other similar organi- 
zations, and the obtaining of financial assistance on a large scale. In 
short, this step would be the best possible investment, even from a fi- 
nancial standpoint. 

Let us then add to the endowment program a campaign for an 
adequate library. This will mean recognition by educational authori- 
ties, a larger body of effective alumnae workers, financial aid from 
our Northern friends, a general strengthening of all departments, and 
a greater usefulness in the work of the Kingdom. 

Who will be the friend to make this possible? 



Page three hundred and twelve 



T HK BAYLOR COLLEGE ALUMNEA ASSOCIATION as 
_ a section of the Student League have fixed as the supreme 
object of the organization the raising of one million dollars in 
the next decade for Baylor College Endowment. Together with 
this object the Student League has for its supreme purpose the 
sending out of seventy-five new missionaries from our student 
body by the close of the five years set aside for the Seventy-five 
Million Dollar Campain. The meaning of it is is "An Endowed 
Baylor Endows the World" this is the ultimate end of Christian 
Education. It is our prayer and plea until it is an accomplished 
fact. 




Page three hundred and thirteen 



The Alumnae Association 



A few years after the separate charter was granted to Baylor 
College in 1866, the Alumnae was organized in Independence. All 
their work was of a local character, the most important of which was 
the raising of one thousand dollars to repair the old college building. 
In Baylor's new home in Belton, the Alumnae Association took on 
new life. At a regular meeting held October 28, 1887, a definite plan 
of work was presented and timidly adopted by the Association. How 
fearfully yet earnestly did the few loyal women launch forth on the 
attempt to raise ten thousand dollars in ten years time for the assist- 
ance of deserving girls who had not the means of acquiring an educa- 
tion. One hundred persons were entreated to give teri dollars a year 
for this purpose. In 189 0, after three years, the treasurer reported 
only one hundred seventy-five dollars contributed by six classes and 
a few honorary members. In 18 93 the number of classes contributing 
had grown to fifteen and the sum to one thousand four hundred dol- 
lars. A small and ardously won beginning, but from this effort has 
come eighty thousand dollars in Loan Funds and scholarships. In 
1918 the Baptist Women of Texas began paying the annual premium 
on fifty thousand dollars to be paid to the Loan Fund on the death of 
the insured. Others have followed this plan, in some cases the prem- 
iums being paid by a Woman's Missionary Society. Many will find it 
an easy way to make a large gift to the Loan Fund. 

Mary Lyon lived and labored a generation before there arose an 
Alice Freeman Palmer. For thirty-four years the Alumnae Associa- 
tion has worked for the Loan Fund and Scholarships. Now the time 
has come for endowment. Through the passing years, the Associa- 
tion has made many material improvements on the college campus 
such as the wall, pillars and gates, the stone seats, the drive, the foun- 
tain, the cement walks; has given substantial help to the library; has 
equipped the gymnasium and placed the beautiful dome on the Wilson 
Administration Building. In 1912 the Association sent out a plea for 
the Fine Arts Building and several donations have been made as a 
nest egg for that much-needed building. In all matters pertaining to 
the betterment of Baylor, the Alumnae Association is interested but 
the one definite object before her now is the endowment — one million 
dollars in a decade. 

The two Bible chairs will be the first to receive gifts from the en- 
dowment fund. Twenty-five thousand dollars for each is the goal. 
The Jubilee Class of 1920 has pledged its earnest effort to the endow- 
ment .of the College Bible Chair, the E. G. Townsend Bible Chair, and 
has made their first contribution to that object. 

wag: 

"An Endowed Baylor Endows the World." 

Page three hundred and fourteen 



Addendum Jubilee 

From 1866 to 1886, the history of the Baylor is complicated. 
During this period three institutions that are now called Baylor were 
granted diplomas. After the separation in 18 66, Baylor University 
continued for twenty years at Independence, graduating only young 
men. Waco University during this twenty years period was giving 
diplomas to men and women. At the Jubilee celebration Baylor Uni- 
versity gave to the men and women of Baylor University from 1845 
to 1866, new degrees, these same degrees had been given to the Baylor 
University men at Independence from 1866 to 1866, but there were no 
diplomas given by the University to the women who graduated at In- 
dependence from 1866 to 188 6, because Baylor College had been sep- 
arately chartered and diplomas were given to the women by Baylor 
College. 

Baylor University could only give diplomas to the two institutions. 
Waco University and Baylor University at Independence became one 
and the same in 1886. These diplomas covered a three fold period; 
first, to men and women, second, to men alone from 1866 to 1886, and 
then to men and women both who graduated at Waco University from 
1866 to 1886. Baylor College never mixed with any other institution 
from 1845 to 1866. Women of Baylor were given diplomas from 
Baylor University after 1866 and until the present time. Baylor Col- 
lege has given her own diplomas to women and to women only, since 

1866. 

— ELLI M. TOWNSEND. 



Page three hundred and fifteen 



Baylor College Alumnae Roster 

1845-1920 





Rufus C. Horace park ,. . m ; 

Burleson Principle ot President Train 

President of Women's Dep't. -~- - — President 
University 

1855. 

* Mary G. (Kavanaugh) Pressler 

1856. 

Carrie (Mooney) Willis Salem, Oregon 

* Zilphia (Fuller) Chew 

1857. 
Ophelia (Jenkins) Horn 





Fannie Rogers 
Harris 



Dora Pettis 
Hobby 



1858. 

Emeline (Allcorn) Gee Brenham, Texas 

"" Mary (Allcorn) Gee 

* Mary (Eddins) Breedlove 

* Mary F. Whiteside 

Dora (Pettus) Hobby Austin, Texas 

Kate (Clark) Ethridge Brownwood, Texas 

* Julia (Robertson) Nott 

* Sallie McNeil 

* Rachel (Barry) Stewart 

* Fannie (Rogers) Harris 

* Mary (McKeller) Herndon 

Rebecca Skelton Sherman, Texas 

Sallie (Chambers) Kavanaugh Waco, Texas 

Bettie (Carter) Davis Houston, Texas 



FOOTNOTE— -We can indicate only year the presidents term began. 



Page three hundred and sixteen 



1859. 

Lucy Atkinson Collins Crockett, Texas 

1860. 
" :: " Sarah (Traynham) Onin . 

* Catherine McDowell Garrett 

Maria (Davis) Smith Salida, Colorado 

Gertrude (Haynes) Billingsby 

1861. 

:; " Eugenia (Barnes) Quinney 

" :; " Annie (Montgomery) Metcalf 

1862. 

Virginia (Cleveland) Rowe Brenham, Texas 

* Ella (Chase ) Parks 

" x " Adeline Hayes 

* Annie Goodwin 

1863. 

Claude Graves Wooten Wells, Texas 

Mary (Johnson) Parker Bryan, Texas 

Hattie Grace Cold Springs, Texas 

Clementine Smith Galveston, Texas 

Sallie (Curry Joynes McKinney, Texas 

Laura (Pettus) Bass Georgetown, Texas 

1864. 

* Judith (Atkinson) Taylor ■ 

Adeline (Allcorn) Gee 

Mollie (Cushney) Burleson Austin, Texas 

Emma (Blanton) Tucker Galveston, Texas 

" x " Mary Anderson 

Sallie (Newsome) Goodwin Bryan, Texas 

1865. 

Annie Muckelroy Campbell 

Lucy Sydnor 




Winnie Goodwin 
McCi-aw, '6 6 




Julia Harris 
Mclver, 66 



1S66. 

Ella (Holland) Call ♦ Orange, Texas 

* Julia (Graves) Cooper 

* Winnie (Goodwin) McCraw 

Julia (Harris) Mclver Caldwell, Texas 

* Mattie (Garrett) Price , 

Annie (Humpreys) MacCallum Arkadelphia, Arkansas 

Florence (Davis) Bledsoe Sherman, Texas 

Mollie Crosby Ross Fort Worth, Texas 

Annie (Crane) Bondies Independence, Texas 



Page three hundred and seventeen 





B. S. Fitzgerald 
President '67 



Henry Lee 

Graves 

President '72 





"W. W. Fontaine- 
President, '73 



Mary Rogers 
Bolton, '67 



1867. 

Tenny (Anderson) Gibson Foster, Texas 

Mary (Rogers) Bolton Wharton, Texas 

1868. 

* Corrie Davis 

Nettie (Houston) Bringhurst San Antonio, Texas 

Helen (Garret) Parks, (Mrs. I. F.) Bryan, Texas 

Ida (Holland) Shepard Beaumont, Texas 

Mollie (Houston) Morrow Georgetown, Texas 

* Alexis (Grace) Dolling 

Ellen (Smith) Power San Antonio, Texas 

* Mary Lee (Graves) Howell 

1869. 

Helen (Traynham) Stone Bellville Texas 






Maggie Hall 
Hicks, '70 



Kate Haynes 
Hudson '70 



Annie Holbert 
iMcIntyre, '71 



1870. 

Mary (Clark) Culpepper Houston, Texas 

Emma (Eddins) Spencer Houston, Texas 

Maggie (Hall) Hicks (Mrs. R. H.)..2416 Montana St., El Paso, Texas 

Kate (Haynes) Hudson Caldwell, Texas 

1871. 

* Lucretia (Creath) Hines 

Annie (Holbert) Mclntyre Mineral Wells, Texas 

Maud (Riall) Tamplett Brenham, Texas 

* Fannie (Graves) Davis 

1872. 

Sallie (Green) Williams Tacoma, Wash. 



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eighteen 






Willie Graves 
White '74 



William Royall 
President, '76 



Sallie Johnson 
Key, '76 



1874. 

Emma Coore Nacogdoches, Texas 

Willie (Graves) White Coleman City, Texas 

* Cornelia (Holmes) Baines 

Annie (Marsh) Jones Valley Mills, Texas 

Ina (Eldredge) Wortham Austin, Texas 

1876. 

Palmetto (Foster) Madden Patrick, Texas 

Sallie (Johnson) Key Crockett Hotel, San Antonio, Texas 

1877. 
Phenie (Spencer) Meadows Ocker, Texas 

* Clara Franklin 

1878. 
Roselle (Davis) Robinson 210 Carson St., San Antonio, Texas 

* Hattie (Stribling) Pancoaste 

Mamie (Styles) Hunt Paige, Texas 

Bessie (Vicars) Young Independence, Texas 

Jennie (Wagner) Dixon, (Mrs. S. M.) Houston, Texas 

Annie (Key) Cudd 

* Kate (Allen) Hanney 

* Susie Fuller 




Annie Luther Bagby 

received her diploma with 

this class. 




Dr. John Hill 
Luther 



* Fannie H. Hatchett . . 
Elli (Moore) Townsend . 
Leila (Law) Boatwright, 



Mrs. Annie 
Luther Bagby, '79 



1879. 



(Mrs. H. O.) 



Belton, Texas 
Bryan, Texas 



Pa 



three hundred and nineteen 




Fannie H. Hatchett, Elli (Moore) Townsend, 
Lelia (Law) Boatwright 

1880. 

* Addie (Breedlove) Ewing 

* Bettie Ethridge ■ 

Lilly (Hagy) Mclntyre Stockdale, Texas 

Addie (Jackson) Bardwell Sweetwater, Texas 

* Alice Jonhson 

Ada (Wagner) Griffin Houston, Texas 

Lula (Johnson) Throop Big Springs, Texas 

* Ida (Lockhart) Reed 

Nellie (Smith) Singleton . . . . : Chicago, 111. 

* Annie (Spencer) Cochran 

Fannie (Styles) Connell Independence, Texas 

1881. 

Mary E. Duncan Rockdale, Texas 

Etta H. Breaker Brazos St., Houston, Texas 

1882. 

Genoa (Cole) Harrinton, (Mrs. J. T.) Waco, Texas 

*'" "Lucile Blackburn ■ 

Virgrie (Culberson) Walker Gatesville, Texa:3 

* WilT.e Hughes 

Emma (Johnson) Somerville San Antonio, Texas 

Lutta (Styles) Crane Eufula, Okla 

Julia (Smith) Spaulding Galveston, Texas 







Addie Breedlove 
Ewing, '8 



Genoa Cole 
Harrington, '81 



Zollie Luther 
Jones, '83 



Allie Allen 
Brown, '83 



Page three hundred and twenty 






Gertrude \£ 

Osterhout, '83 

Lillie Nabring Ebbie Higdon 

Pepper od Osborn, '8 4 

1883. 

Emma (Garrett) Stowe Galveston, Texas 

Mattie (Mussett) McDowell Portland, Texas 

Allie (Allen > Brown Belton, Texas 

Carrie (Clay) Thornhill Corsicana, Texas 

Bettie (Seward) Bailey Independence, Texas 

Zollie (Luther) Jones, (Mrs. W. Goodrich) Temple, Texa.s 

* Gertrude Osterhout 

Lizzie (Pearson) Garrett, care Judge Garrett . . . .San Antonio, Texas 

Annie (Grant) Jenkins Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Loudie (Jackson) Douthitt El Paso, Texas 

Lillie (Nabring) Pepper Belton, Texas 

Beatrice (Rose) Anderson Killeen, Texas 

1884. 
Fannie Morgan William Penn, Texas 

* Ida Verser 

Ebbie (Higdon) Osborne Lampasas, Texas 

* Laura Seward • 





Winnie McCraw 
Swearingen, '85 





Attress Nelms 
Jones, '8 5 



Lillie Bailey 
Penny, '85 



Annie Higdon 
Whitfield, '85 



Page three hundred and twenty-one 



1885. 

Annie (Higdon) Whitfield Belton, Tex;;s 

Lillie (Bailey) Penny Independence, Texas 

Bifllie (Moore) Ault . . Enterprise, Oregon 

Winnie (McCraw) Swearingen . . . 529 Gunther St., San Antonio, Texas 
Attress (Nelms) Jones 204 Pecan St., San Antonio, Texas 





Clara Woodall Mary McClelland 

Blair, '8 6 O'Hair, '8 6 

1886. 

Mamie (Boone) Crisp Uvalde, Texas 

Clara (Woodall) Blair San Marcos, Texas 

Jessie (Bailey) Hale Lampasas, Texas 

* Nettie (Smith) Blackshear 

Mary (McClelland) O'Hair Coleman, Texas 

Lula (Waters) Schoolfield Galveston, Texas 

Lizzie (Blackshear) Noble Greenville, Texas 

1887. 

* Hettie (Spaulding) Fitzhugh 

Lula (Roberts) Johnson, (Mrs. Clint) San Angelo, Texas 







Hattie Woodruf; 
Lula Roberts Georgia Blakely Annie Tyson Hillyer, '89 

Johnson, '87 Smith '88 Lane, '88 

1888. 

Kate (Balch) Hannam Waring, Texas 

Zula (Batte) Herron Bishop, Texas 

George (Blakely) Smith, (Mrs. Will) Houston, Texas 

Lela (Erwin) Tyler, (Miss Louis) Dallas, Texas 

Winnie (Grant) Dean Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Annie (Tyson) Lane Box 5 7, Vernon, Texas 

Ada Lasater Belton, Texas 

Lucile (Lawler) Pardue San Antonio, Texas 

Irene (Steele) Taylor, Texas 

Maude (Woodall) Williamson San Marcos, Texas 

1889. 

Susie (Boone) Wilson Navasota, Texas 

- Marie (Fechner) Burnet 

Annie (Langley) Baker Bowling Green, Ky. 

Mary (Nibling) Halbert Sargosa, Texas 

Ida (Rogers) Miller Belle Mead, N. J. 

Hattie (Woodruff) Hillyer Belton, Texas 



Page three hundred and twenty-two 





Fannie Mitchell 
Rockwell, '9 



Lula Pace, '9 



1890. 



Lucy (Drake) Smith, (Mrs. Chas. F.) Santa Anna, Calif. 

Lelia (Fisher) Woodward Ninetah, Okla. 

Lottie (James) Watson Garland, Texas 

Adele (Jennings) Williams Plainview, Texas 

Fannie (Mitchell) Rockwell, ....1031 Louisville Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 
Lula Pace Baylor University, Waco, Texas 




U 



U 



Sue Cochran 



Permilla Mitchell 
Cline, '91 



Lillie James 
Myer, '91 



Clara Hefley 

Potts, '91 



1891. 

Sue Cochran Belton, Texas 

Clara (Hefley) Potts (Mrs. A. D.) . . . . • Belton, Texas 

Lillie (James) Myer (Mrs. I. S.) Belton, Texas 

Permilla (Mitchell) Cline (Mrs. W. E.) Belton, Texas 

Ora (Osterhout) Wade, (Mrs. C. B.) Belton, Texas 

Lucy (Royall) Wright Tyler, Texas 

Callie (Rose) Maddox Comanche, Okla. 

Lina (Rogers) Kemp Cameron, Texas 

Marian (Spencer) Roberts Killeen, Texas 

Kate (Thielen) Rix Big Springs, Texas 

* Lizzie (Tilson ) Wade • 







Emma Davant 
Bmbree, '9 2 



P. H. Eager 
President '91 



•Gillian Embree 
Creswell, '94 



Page three hundred and twenty-thre 



1892. 

Emma (Davant) Embree Belton, Texas 

Mabel (Pendleton) Sayre St. Louis, Mo. 

* Vinnie (Perkins) Spencer 

Hallie (Collard) Boyett Austin, Texas 

# Mollie (Horton) Powne 

Alice (Kersey) Martin Morgan, Texas 

1893. 

Susie Pope Cameron, Texas 

Eula Cobb Grandview, Texas 

Mubel (Oxsheer) Quinn Big- Springs, Texas 

1894. 

May (Browne) Sledge Tyler, Texas 

Florie Carswell Amery, Miss. 

Rose (Chamberlain) Coleman San Angelo, Texas 

Maymie (Davis) Smith Reagan, Texas 

Gillian (Embree) Creswell San Antonio, Texas 

Lucile Praim Milano, Texas 

Cora Higgins . Bureau of Census, Washington, D. C. 

Annie. (Nelms) Savage .^. : Dallas, Texas 




Nannie Applin.s 
Nichols, '9 5 



Dr. E. H. Wells 




Junia Osterhout 
'95 






Martha Dowell 
Maiden, '9 5. 



Emma Kins 



'9C 




Mary Louis; Wils. 
Parker, '95 



Lillian Wells 
Schofield, '9 6 



1895. 

Nannie (Appling) Nichols Helena, Texas 

Nannie (Armstrong) Murrah Piano, Texas 

" ;; ~ Pearl (Curtis) Knight • 

Clara (Davison) Compere Joplin, Mo. 

Martha (Dowell) Maiden 214 E. 31st St., Kansas City, Mo. 

Dora (Ferguson) Street , Waco, Texas 

Lela (Hammond) Griffin Kosse, Texas 

Cooper (Haney) Weatherford, Texas 

Junia Osterhout Belton, Texas 

Daisy Sandidge S13 Foster Ave., Evanston, II!. 

Willie (Smith) Goodwin Bryan, Texas 

Eula (Staton) McCelvey Temple, Texas 

Mary Louis (Wilson) Parker Hereford, Texas 



Pa 



three hundred and twenty-four 



Golden Jubilee Class 





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1895 



Page three hundred and twenty-fiv 




1896. 

Elizabeth (Armstrong) Aldridge Piano, Texas 

India (Bailey) Kerr, (Mrs. John) San Antonio, Texas 

Lessie (Carswell) Hanptkamp Philadelphia, Pa. 

Dena Cooper .... Corona, Calif. Belle James . . . Belton, Texas 

Emma King McKinney, Texas 

Emma (Lott) Gilmount, (Mrs. Arvid) Los Angeles, Calif. 

Ophie (Lott) Pittman Goliad, Texas 

* Mary (Storts) Wallace * Mattie Bell (Spooner) Lewis 

* Katie (Mayes) Bell Birdie McCrary Calvert, Texas 

Delia (Mellard) Jenkins Gonzales, Texas 

Dena (Morris) Mote Tucson, Arjz. 

Mattie (Morris) Miller Coleman, Texas 

Adeline O'Connor Houston, Texas 

Annie (Thielen) Whitney Alexandra, La. 

Marguerite (Thompson) Provine , . . McKinney, Texas 

Sallie (Wells) McKnight McKinney, Texas 

Lollie (Orr) Huberich Austin, Texas 

Lillian (Wells) Schofield Dallas, Texas 



Page three hundred and twenty-six 




1897. 

* Mabel Austin • 

Mamie (Baggett) Hagelstein San Angelo, Texas 

Alma (Cole) Spears Dallas, Texas 

Mamie (Dowell) Ditto McKinney, Texas 

Edna (Farrar) Fite Jacksonville, Texas 

Ela (McAdams) Hillsman Brownwood, Texas 

Mary D. (McGee) McGregor, (Mrs. G. A.) Dallas, Texas 

Dillie (Krohn) Otto Grand Junction, Colo. 

Julia Miller Waelder, Texas 

Levie (Morris) Morrison Lordsburg, New Mexico 

Josie (Morris) Cooper Brownwood, Texas 

Margaret (Savage) Lowe Tsinan, China 



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Mamie Dowell 
Ditto, '97 



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Mary D. McGet 
McGregor, '9 7 



W. A. Wilson 
President, '9 6 







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^^ ^^^ Provine, '9 8 

Ruth Barton Ethel Lee Scott Rozelle Rose 

Shanklin, '98 '9 8 Barclay '9S 

1898. 

R.uth (Barton) Shanklin Salado, Texas 

Lena (Chiles) Bell, (Mrs. N. M.) Wileetka, Okla. 

Mamie (Crozier) Covington Allen, Texas 

Pearl (Dowell) Provine Grenada, Mis;-;. 

Stella (Fletcher) Stoddard Lemon Grove, Cal. 

Jessie (Hamilton) Anthony Comanche, Texas 

Ora Johnson Mt. Vernon, Texas 

Ethel (Lee) Scott 1311 Johnson St., Little Rock, Ark. 

Susie (Myer) Beery Kansas City, Mo. 

May Perry Rockdale, Texas 

Jimmie Perry Rockdale, Texas 

Zora (Potts) Moseley Dallas, Texas 

Lillian (Pruitt) Joyce Roswell, New Mexico 

Birdie (Pryor) Haley Riddleton, Tenn. 

Rozelle (Rose) Barclay (Mrs. R. L.) Temple, Texas 

Alice (Thielan) Reader 1421 Isabella Ave., Houston, Texas 

Nannie (Van Cleave) Collard Odessa, Texas 

Nannie Woodard Grapeland, Texas 

Fern (Rogers) Miller Waco, Texas 






Elizabeth Mclver 
'99 



Annie Cheaney 
Humphrey, '99 



Fannie Thomas 
'99 



Page three hundred and twenty-eight 



1899. 

Annie Bishop Dallas, Texas 

Mary (Boyd) Allen Hearne, Texas 

Nelle Batte Bryan, Texas 

Annie (Cheaney) Humphrey Cold Harbor, N. Dakota 

Emma (Crozier) Hunt Grapevine, Texas 

Norma Harris Lampasas, Texas 

Ora (Harris) Frazier Lampasas, Texas 

Lee (Hartrick) Garrison Belton, Texas 

Elizabeth Mclver Wharton, Texas 

Etha Leta Perry Rockdale, Texas 

Daisy Ray Belton, Texas 

Annie Swann Seminary Hill, Texas 

Lucy (Sterling) Norris Houston, Texas 

* Fannie Thomas * Luta Walker 

Florence Waggener Dallas, Texas 

Tennie (Wingren) Blankenship Dallas, Texas 

1900. 

Jennie (Armstrong) Wilkerson Holland, Texas 

* Bertie (Berron) Webb 

- Allie ( Binkley) Wells 

Mary (Ball) Guynn Oklahoma 

Fannie Bettis Orange, Texas 

Elizabeth (Carrick) Eatman (Mrs. L. S.) Wilmot, Ark. 

Addie (Grimmette) Truett, (Mrs. T. J.) McKinney, Texas 

* Lillian Hudson 

May Howard Care Y. W. C. A., San Antonio, Texas 

Alma (Key) Avera San Angelo, Texas 

Mattie (Moreman) Weather! ord Piano, Texas 

Emeline (Mock) Woodruff Houston, Texas 

Pearl Patterson Cisco, Texas 

Ella Tibbs Valley Mills, Texas 

Emma (Thomas) Dungan Memphis, Tenn. 

Katie (Woodard) Bass Ardmore, Okla. 





Emily Mock 
Woodruff, '00 



Elizabeth Carrick 
Eatman '00 



Jule Mclver 
Wood, '01 



Bettie Mathews 
Ranney, '01 






Sadie Dowell 
King, '01 



Sallie Yardly 
Herdick, '01 



Maggie Herrington 
Trussell, '01 



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1901. 

Delia (Russell) Agnail Big Springs 

Amy (Bentley) Bell Decatur,' 

Jule (McIver)Wood Monticello 

Bettie (Matthews) Ranney Mathis 

Carrie (Hill) Regan Franklin,' 

* Mazie Webb * Sadie (Dowell) King 

Fay (McClelland) McClure Forest, 

Lucile (Hartrick) Maples Temple, 

Clifton (Brooks) Burr Laredo 

Sallie (Yardly) Hedrick Wheelock, 

Mattie (Downman) Denton West 

Eunice (Martin) Arkadelphia, 

Annie (Boyd) Oliver Caldwell, 

Lida (Batson) Toland Mart 

Maggie (Herrington) Trussell Port Neches, 



Texas 

Texas 

Ark. 

Texas 

Tenn. 



Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Ark. 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 






Barbara Hawkins 
Smith, '02 



Janie Carrick 
Shipp, '02 



Esther Boatwright 
Davis, '02 





Minnie Hayes 
Tidwell, '02 



Rosa Moffett 
Baugh, '02 

1902. 

* Annie Byrd (Compere) Peyton 

Minnie Pearl (Jones) Simonds, 5052 Blackstone, Ave., Chicago, 111. 

Dixie (Umphress) Richardson Wills Point, Texas 

Harriet (Howard) Hulse Galveston, Texas 

Barbara (Hawkins) Smith Floydada, Texas 

Esther (Boatwright) Davis, (Mrs. W. C.) Bryan, Texas 

Minnie (Hayes) Tidwell S. Sth St., Waco, Texas 

* Carrie Saunders ■ * Janie (Carrick) Shipp 

Hallie (Cowden) Day 542 Broadway, New Orleans, La. 

Eva Gartman Goldthwait, Texas 

Lula Hollis Rogers' Prairie, Texas 

Daisy (Lewis) Willis Priddy, Texas 

Agnes Luther 102 Noble St., Dallas, Texas 

Gertrude Grigsby . . . Palestine, Texas 

Cora (Lamb) Dulaney Holland, Texas 

Rose (Moffett) Baugh Ballinger, Texas 

Josie (Spain) Shanks Yoakum, Texas 

Lizzie (Taylor) Cole Franklin, Texas 

Olive Howard Bryan, Texas 



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Bell (Terry) Elder Cheapside, Texas 

Eula Lillian (McCarty) Young Granger, Texas 

Nora Lee (Wells) McKinney Jones' Prairie, Texas 

Linnie Wolf Palacios, Texas 

Mary (Moreman) Lee Brownwood, Texas 

Ermine (Bagby) Sowell Buenos Aires, Argentine, S. A. 

Louise Halverson Tyler, Texas 

Mildred Gates San Antonio, Texas 

Eileen Saunders Belton, Texas 

Annie James Belton, Texas 

Emily Haigler Tioga, Texas 

May (Varnell) Walton • Elbert, Texas 

Ella (Brown) Bowman Leander, Texas 

Anna Upshaw Belton, Texas 

Caroline Miller Waco, Texas 

Maude (Lay) Harris Estancia, New Mexico 



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Bell Terry Elder 
'03 




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Sowell, '03 




Anna Up haw, '03 




Maude (Lay) 
Harris, '03 






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Caroline Miller 
'03 



May Varnell 
i Walton '03 



Nora Wella 
McKinney, '03 




Lillian Martin 
Nelson, '04 




Juliette Bozeman 
Touchstone, '04 




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Olive Bentley 
Seale, '04 




Jessie Dowell 
Bryant, '04 




Mary McCauley 
Maxwell, '04 




Annie Laurie 
Sykes, '04 



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1904. 

Effie Taylor Hearne, Texas 

Lillian (Martin) Nelson Clarendon, Texas 

Irma (Clifton) Speight Kansas City, Mo. 

Jessie (Dowell) Bryant McKinney, Texas 

Elizabeth Phillips . . . . • Tyler, Text's 

May Bell (Little) Taylor Harleton, Texas 

Ora (Campbell) Bone Jennings, La. 

Annie (Bellowe) Lancaster Dallas, Texas 

Ethel Smith Columbia, Texas 

Mary (McCauley) Maxwell Waco, Texas 

Annie Laurie Sykes Bap. Day Nursery, Houston, Texas 

* Juliette (Bozeman) Touchstone 

Olive (Bentley) Seale Jasper, Texas 

Dora (Finkin) Murray Palacios, Texas 

Sara Alice Champion Waco, Texas 







Annie Long 
'05 



Rosa Golden 
'05 



Eula Rogers 
Haynes, "05 



Achsa, Bentley 
Hahn, '05 



1905. 

Eula (Rogers) Haynes Miles, Texas 

Lucile Austin • Belton, Texas 

Mabel (Broome) Swonger Voth, Texas 

Pauline Clark Bartlett, Texas 

Ada Heflin Holder, Texa.s 

Beatrice (Killingsworth) Love Houston, Texas 

Annie Long Snyder, Texas 

Sallie (Lee) Weathered 902 Fifth Ave., Ft. Worth, Texas 

Lora Martin Kyle, Texas 

Mildred Mihills • Houston, Texas 

Myrtis Scofield Itasca, Texas 

Karen (Sparra) Rogers Ardmore, Okla. 

* May (Vawter) Moore 

Rosa Golden Dallas, Texas 

Achsa (Bentley) Hahn Beaumont, Texas 

Grace (Wallis) Givens (Mrs. J. M.) Ft. Worth, Texas 

Kate (Houghton) Waco, Texas 

Virginia Stoddard Belton, Texas 

Florence Durrett Belton, Texas 

Popie (Cleveland) Patrick Kingsville, Texas 



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Bertha Cannon 
--. ■ > ' 06 

Cora Breedlove Nell Carrick 

Powell, '06 '06 

1906. 

Gerald (Allen) Best Carson, La. 

Cora (Breedlove) Powell Jefferson Ave., Houston, Texas 

Frankie (Broome) Cook 1915 Magnolia Ave., Beaumont, Texas 

Nell Carrick Belton, Texas 

* Bertha Cannon 

Lena Cole Crosbyton, Texas 

Ethel (Gates) Dupree ....211 Lexington Ave., San Antonio, Texas 

Pauline Mendanhall Piano, Texas 

Lilma (McEachern) Gilbert Austin, Texas 

Lyda Riley League, Texas 

Sedalia Rea Midlothian, Texas 

Varina (Saunders) Tanner San Marcos, Texas 

Nora Wood Boerne, Texas 






Hannah Fair 
Sallee '07 



Mabel Bassel 
Blanton, '07 



Eula Sims 
McDonald, '07 



1907. 



Anna Athens Harrisburg Road, Houston, Texas 

Edna (Bassel) Wilson Belton, Texas 

*■ Mabel (Bassel) Blanton 

Dahlia (Caudell) Carson Pineville, La. 

Lula Caudell Matador, Texas 

Roba (Christian) Hall Wills Point, Texas 

Bernice Hyatt Karnes City, Texas 

Lelia (Harris) Howett, (Mr. Jack) Gainesville, Texas 

Elsie Hooper Colorado City, Texas 

Sudie (Jenkins) Garritt, (Mrs. Jesse) Caldwell, Texas 

Hazel (Kendrick) Genheimer, (Mrs. E. L.) 

1002 N. 7th St., Waco, Texas 

Clara (Lamb) Collier Hugo, Okla. 

Bessie Messer Austin, Texas 

Eula (Sims) McDonald Markham, Texas 

Margaret (Stamper) Tarbrough Pecos, Texas 

Hannah Fair Sallee Shanghai, China 

Callie Thompson Corona, N. M. 

Berthal (Townsend) Batte Tampico, Mexico 

May Valentine South Bend, Texas 



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Last Class to Graduate from the Old Chapel 



Page three hundred and thirty-six 



Cannie (Whitmire) Griffin. Salado, Texas 

Elizabeth Watkins { Hattiesbu,rg, Miss. 

Grace (Wilson) Monteith, (Mrs. M. B.) Belton, Texas 

Virgie (Wolf) Echols, (Mrs. H. A.) Palacios, Texas 

Blanche (Hawkins) Booth (Mrs. Vernon) Globe, Ariz. 





Eddie Wilcox 
Bush, 'OS 



Joe Moore 
Howard, 'OS 



1908. 

Rosylene (Anderson) Hoover Canyon City, 

Clifford Bryant Chicag 

Winnie (Brown) McGauhey Greenville, 

Mattie (Braswell) Wasson Marlow, 

Milner (Baker) Estes Naples, 

Verna Clark S. Wesley, Greenville, 

Winnie Mae (Cain) Reed 3916 Chenevert, Houston, 

* Mabel Bains * Bessie (George) Sewell . , 

Grace (Crosson) Lancaster Adamsville, 

Ola (Cochran) Hopkins Hollis, 

Dollie Cowart Tolar, 

Sallie (Dalton) Ferris Ft. Worth, 

Sarah (Earls) Huber Taylor, 

Lena (Fletcher) Bullock, (Mrs. T. A.) Bryan, 

Clemie (Keeling) Temple Nog-ales, 

Joe (Moore) Howard Grace, 

Willie Metcalf 2 72 7 Howell, Dallas, 

Purnie Pearman Kingsburg, 

Lottie (Reed) Kinard, (Mrs. D. L. C.) Memphis, 

Alma Sanderford Belton, 

Beryl (Smith) de Roulak Pasadena, 

May Smiley Rosebud, 

Nettie (West) Lewis Memphis, 

Alice (Keeling) Wilson, (Mrs. W. W.) 

* Cora (Spurlin) Crook .. .- 

611 Denver St., Wichita Falls, 

Cora Woodard Grapevine, 

Emma Wingren • El Paso, 

Eddie (Wilcox) Bush McKinney, 

Eleanor (Glenn) Hambin (Mrs. Kyle S.) Belton, 



Colo. 
), 111. 
Texas 

Okla. 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 



Texas 
Okla. 
N. M. 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 

Ariz. 

Miss. 
Texas 
Texas 
Ten ii. 
Texas 
Calif. 
Texas 
Texas 



Texa s 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 

Texas 





Margaret Carrick 
Jones, '09 



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Ollie Cochran 
Davis, '09 





Minnie Saureman , 
Cotten, '09 



Minnie Wells 
Croft, '09 



Page three hundred and thirty-seven 



Class of 1909 






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1909. 

Jimmie (Brown) McKinzie Lampasas, Texas 

Mara (Clayton) Sochee Kerrville Texas 

Grace Clymer Leonard, Texas 

Sallie Dickerson Driscoll, Texas 

Robbie (Dalton) Miller Mineral Wells, Texas 

Jessie (Holder) Watkins Mt. Vernon, Texas 

Vera Kellis Sterling- City, Texas 

Alice (Lucas) Plainfield New Barre, N. J. 

•• Alice Ray (Lee) Mcintosh 

Alta Lee (Long) Cole 73 9 Euclid Ave., Beaumont, Texas 

Grace (Neathery) Wilcoxson Farmersville, Texas 

Alta (Ross) Covey Madill, Okla. 

Lelia (Routh) McKinney Seminary Hill, Port Worth, Texas 

Eileen (Russell) Tyler Texas 

Ollie (Cochcran) Davis Sour Lake ' Texas 

Susie (Milam) Jones Wienert, Texas 

Una Hall Wichita Palls, Texas 

Lizzie (Minchin) Boone Throckmorton, Texas 

Margaret (Carrick) Jones, (Mrs. Jesse) Belton, Texas 

Virginia (Frazier) Parry Buffalo, New York 

Lora Lee Andrews Dallas, Texas 

Laura Beck r. F . d. No _ 6> San Antonio, Texas 

Neva Neal R. F. D. No. 3, Dallas, Texas 

Etta (King) Parker 2800 Fannin St., Houston, Texas 

Minnie (Saureman) Cotten B1 Christo, Cuba 

Myrtle (Herron) Harper, (Mrs. J. W.) Paducah, Texas 

Ethel (Roberts) Dubose Dubose,' Texas 

Effie (Murrell) Durant, Okl.i. 

Minnie (Wells) Croft Terrell, Texas 





Stella Brown 
Lancaster, '10 Nannie David, 

'10 

1910. 

Louise (Ball) Campbell, (Mrs. Hiil) Gainesville, Texas 

Lallah (Bogart) Hudson Waco, Texas 

Stella (Brown) Lancaster Pampa, Texas 

Exa (Browning) Link Las Cruces, Ne. M. 

Katherine (Keeling) Taggart, (Mrs. W. C.) Hope, N. M. 

Mavis (Cole) Alexander, (Mrs. S. J.) Hearne, Texas 

Julia Collier Washington, D. C. 

* Pattie Daniel 

Nannie David Oyo via Lagos, Africa 

Fannie Maud (DuPuy) Monong, (Mrs. Joe) Palestine, Texas 

Ive (George) Gentry, Ark. 

Sidney Garner Mart, Texas 

* Lizzie Home • 

Nell Garvey Gainesville, Texas 

* Viola Johnson 

Mattie Lee (Josey) Duncan, (Mrs. Bradford) Tucson, Ariz. 

Lottie (Key) Yeary, (Mrs. W. R.) Farmersville, Texas 

Annie Jordon Houston, Texas 



Page three hundred and thirty-nine 



Julia Crofts Terrell, 

Lula Moore Adamsville, 

May (Pierce) James Glencoe, 

Minnie (Pickering') Bardwell, 

Edith Rogers San Angelo, 

Christine Rogers Decatur, 

Mary (Rutherford) Cavitt Holdenville, 

Bess (Smith) Strange Reisel, 

Grace (Tippett) Martin Arlington, 

Willie (Valentine) Allen Merkel, 

Pauline (Smith) Crawford Tulia, 

Grace Willbanks Cleburne, 

Willie (Webb) Carpenter, Care Flora Webb . .Colorado Spring 



Texas 
Texas 

N. M. 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Okla. 
Texus 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 

s, Col. 





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Minnie Cochran Bess Whitehead 

'11 Scott, '11 

1911. 

Pauline (Benson) Wolverton, (Mrs. M. D.) Mart, Texas 

Minnie Cochran Parthenon, Ark. 

Lula Croushorn • Seymore, Texas 

Lila Danforth 1648 Columbia, St., Houston, Texas 

Bess (Whitehead) Scott, (Mrs. H. C.) Denver, Colo. 

Gladys Rutan Port Arthur, Texas 

Ethel (Wilson) Knorpp 1410 W. 5th St., Kansas City, Mo. 

Lena (Walker) Falvey Longview, Tex,\>s 




Eli; Whitfield 
Strickland, '12 



Elli Ault, '12 




E. G. Townsend 
Acting Pres, '12 



Ola Beaty, '12 



1912. 

Dezzie (Arnett) Roach, (Mrs. R. J.) Ranger, Texas 

Minnie Arnold Houston, Texas 

Elli Ault Enterprise, Ore. 

Louise Bowen Beaumont, Texas 

Ola Beaty Belton, Texas 

Esther Cammack Washington, D. 0. 

Ora (Champion) Hague Dallas, Texas 

Nellie (Chant) Shipp Belton, Texas 

B. Collier Lockney, Texas 



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«MffiS 







Page three hundred and forty-one 



Nellie (Derrick) Bounds R. F. D. No. 4, Lexington, Texas 

Mabel (Durrett) Parmentor Troy, Texas 

Dora George 4021 Cole St., Dallas, Texas 

Laura Mae Gist 3415 Junius St., Dallas, Texas 

May (Glass) Ray Belton, Texas 

Myrtle (Higginbotham) Hunt Braeketville, Texas 

Alta Lovelady Rockwood, Texas 

Mary D. (Moore) Prideaux Brownfield, Texas 

Ora (Pickett) Isbell, (Mrs. Gordon) Rockwall, Texas 

Blanche Ray Rusk Baptist Academy, Rusk, Texas 

Mary (Rice) Nation Azle. Texas 

Birdie Robertson Bardwell, Texas 

Martha (Schwinn) Jordon, (Mrs. J. T.) Troy, Texas 

Nettie Spradlin Pleasanton, Texas 

Elli (Whitfield) Strickland Coleman. Texas 






Lucile Auten, '13 



Dr. J. C. Hardy 

President 

1913. 




Zeola Philen, 'IS 



Lucile Auten Abilene, Texas 

Lucile Bains ■ . . Brookshire, Texas 

Kathryn Bowen Belton, Texas 

Lucile (Blake) Gardner 4300 La Fayette, Dallas, Texi.s 

Myrtle (Copeland) Campbell Las Vegas, N. M. 

Shattie Emanuel Fuqua, Texas 

Gussie (Hale) Bell Cleburne, Texas 

Emma Hamilton Alpine, Texas 

Suetie Hewitt Clawson, Texas 

Bettie Hinson Groveton, Texas 

Estell Hunt 17 04 Poplar Fresno, Cal. 

Lena Lovelady Rockwood, Texas 

Jessie (Letcher) Fluvanna, Texas 

Berta Martin 924 Josephine St., Ft. Worth, Texas 

Clara Ogden 1914 McKinney Ave., Dallas, Texas 

Zeola Philen Brownwood, Texas 

Jessie Sanderford Belton, Texas 

Agnes Taylor Hearne, Texas 

Lois (Thomas) Thompson Millington, Tenn. 





Lucy Adams 
Pitts, '14 



Lura Jones, '14 





Johnnie Terry 
Riggs, '14 



Sara Whitfield 
Boyd '14 



Page three hundred and forty-two 



1914. 

Birdie Lawrence Dallas, Texas 

Elois (Anderson) Potts Piano, Texas 

Lucy (Adams) Pitts ■ Cleburne, Texas 

Dorothy (Clearman) Bassell ." Belton, Texas 

Ruby (Clearman) Wood Mt. Calm, Texas 

Lura Jones Amarillo, Texas 

Loleat Liggon Llano, Texas 

Bertha (Shepard) Barcus Arlington, Texas 

Johnnie (Terry) Riggs Nopal, Texas 

Nettie Wallace Rosebud, Texas 

Alma (Walker) Barksdale Overton, Texas 

* Ida Mae (de Stieguer) Wilson 

Minnie McCarty Mercury, Texas 

Sara (Whittield) Boyd Dallas, Texas 

Dovie (Wilbanks) Moreland Plains, Texas 

Bennie Bell (Roberts) Lyles Ft. McKavitt, Texas 




Ruth Dowell, '15 





Louise Hillyer, '15 






Lucie Harris, '15 




Josephine Kaye, '15 



1915. 



Ruth Dowell • McKinney, Texas 

Cigale Jordan Oglesby, Texas 

Sierra Hamilton Hemphill, Texas 

Pearl (Wilson) Jackson Belton, Texas 

Ethyleene (Dodson) Wright, (Mrs. F. W.) Dallas, Texas 

Mary (Beauchamp) Crenshaw 3701 Lexington, Dallas, Texas 

Louise Hillyer Belton, Texas 

Edith (Corken) Burk, (Mrs. B. B.) Washington, Texas 

Josephine Kaye Route 5, Box 104, Ft. Worth, Texas 

Lucie Harris Belton, Texas 

Ethel (Tillotson) Lyon Ranger, Texas 

Elizabeth Monteith Belton, Texas 







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Lilly Merle 
Embree, '16 





Ivey Gravette 
'16 



Ada McQuary, '16 



Page three hundred and forty-three 




Homecoming Class of 1916 






Ruth Terry 

'16 



Gist 




I ma Wolf '16 



Elizabeth 
Alexander, '17 



Birdie Lawrence 
'14 



1916. 

Olive (Dierlam) Clark Troupe, Texas 

Lilly Merle Embree Belton, Texas 

Ruth (Garrison) Francis Belton, Texas 

Ivey Gravette Temple, Texas 

Celia May (Jones) Matthews Moody, Texas 

Pauline Larimer San Antonio, Texas 

Francis (McCardell) McMurray San Antonio, Texas 

Ada McQuary Scott City, Kansas 

Arzella (Smith) Speck O'Brien, Texas 

Ruth (Terry) Gist Tipton, Okla. 

Gladys Tingle Belton, Texas 

Ima Wolf Palacios, Texas 

Ellen Gist Dallas, Texas 

1917. 

Elizabeth Alexander Ballinger, Texas 

Melissa Allen Temple, Texas 

Macie Carter Killeen, Texas 

Polly Elli Cochran Sour Lake, Texas 

Norine (Franklin) Fathergill Temple, Texas 

Laura Mae Gist Leonard, Texas 

Ida Hamilton Cheapside, Texas 

Norma Harris Lampasas, Texas 

Suetie Hewitt Angleton, Texas 

Minnie Knittel Houston Texas 

Maude (Lay) Harris Estancia, Texas 

Cora Lay , . . . San Marcos, Texas 

Etta Mansker Moody, Texas 

Mary (Nuckles) Longfield Lampasas, Texas 

Virgie Stoddard Belton, Texas 

Vesta Ferguson Taylor San Antonio, Texas 

Mary Vance Paradice, Texas 



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Alice Bagby, - 1S Amy Wade, 'IS 

1918. 

Alice Bagby Sao Paulo, Brazil 

Vida Barber Hatesbury, Texas 

Gladys Byers Cleburne, Texas 

Grace Clayton Cleburne, Texas 

Mary (Conrad Shelby Waco, Texas 

Maudeames de Steiguer San Marcos, Texas 

Etta Goode Moody, Texas 

Irene Guillion La Grange, Mo. 

Lula Belle (McCardell) McMurray Cold Springs, Texas 

Mary Nash Belton, Texas 

Alma Sanderford Belton, Texas 

Ruth Splawn Decatur, Texas 

Amy Wade Belton, Texas 

Leona Watson Grand Saline, Texas 

Linnie Wolf Palacios, Tex-as 




Grace Elliott, '19 



Maurine Griffis 
'19 



D'Alva (Hale) 
Pearce, '19 



Lois Pipkin, 'li 



15)19. 

Ima Chadwick Temple, Texas 

Anno Cline Galveston, Texas 

Ruth Clonch De Leon, Texas 

Lula (Clouch) Caruth, (Mrs. J. S.) ... .Ash Lane Ave., Dallas, Texas 

Mary (Cochran) Davis Texola, Okla. 

Florence Conrad Claude, Texas 

Mrs. Margaret B. Dougherty Cold Water, Miss. 

Grace Elliott Yang Chow, China 

Mary Evetts Belton, Texas 

Maurine Griffis Greenville, Texas 

D'Alva (Hale) Pearce Dallas, Texas 

Marion Hammond Houston, Texas 

Charlotte Henrichson San Antonio, Texas 

Eugenia (Kidd) Alldredge Mericopa, Ariz. 

Kellie Loop Rice, Texas 

Martha (McCrary) McLean Orange, Texas 

Stella McDaniel Belton, Texas 

Lexie Mason Granger, Texas 



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three hundred and forty-five 



Mrs. Ava Harrison Nail Crawford, Texas 

Willie Nuckles Lampasas, Texas 

Lois Pipkin Bryan, Texas 

Mary Preston Tahoka, Texas 

Mae Smith Adamsville, Texas 

Annie (Splawn) Spaulding Hillsboro, Texa^ 

Annie May (Utley) Pottinger Sipe Springs, Texas 

Virginia Vest Cameron, Texas 

Bessie Walker Gladewater, Texas 




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Mansker, '20 




Eula Ham, '2 



1920. 

Bertha J. Armstrong Jones Prairie, 

Gladys Barmore . Cameron, 

..anie Belle Baten Cisco, 

jewell Burkes Reagan, 

Clara (Carter) Davis Greenville, 

Sue Mae Carter Hartshorn, 

Ada Cates Shiro, 

Genoa Cole Sweetwater, 

Effie (Satterwhite) Henry Seminary Hill, Ft. Worth, 

Mary Elizabeth Grain Lone Oak, 

Virginia Dillon Pendleton, 

Theresa Duff Ranger, 

Ida Mae Garner Galveston, 

Ruby Lee Garner Palacios, 

Eula Lee Ham Teague, 

Ruth Hicks Henrietta, 

Cornelia Alma Howell Donie, 

Zemma Hare Kaiefing, 

Ina M. Johnson Mineral Wells, 

Monette Jordon Oglesby, 

Mary Jane Mansker Moody, 

Marie Pryor Belton, 

Belfa Bedford Boyd, 

Gladys Roach Coleman, 

Tommie Camille Sevier Oenaville, 

Mabel Claire Stovall Barksdale, 

Clura Ward Eden, 

Mary Wilson Bogota, 

Arnette, Watford Lufkin, 

Ermine (Partain) Stewart . Salado, 

Maude Carter Killeen, 



Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
China 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Texas 
Tex; is 
Texas 



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Fine Arts 

Baylor College 



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Page three hundred and forty-eight 



Thomas S. Lovette 
Dean of Fine Arts Department 

The present Dean of Fine Arts in Baylor College, was born at 
Maesteg, South Wales. He began the study of music at the early 
age of eight years. From the first he was considered a prodigy, and 
at ten years of age became organist of Bethel Baptist Church at Maes- 
teg, which position he held for eight years. 

Even when quite young, Lovette's versatility seemed unlimited. 
He was popular as a boy soprano. He was also a declaimer of no 
small ability. His early training consisted of singing in choirs, 
playing B flat horn in a brass band, second violin in a stringed band, 
piccalo in orchestra, and a great deal of accompanying for singers. 

When sixteen years old, he went to Cardiff, where he studied 
with Clara Novello until he left for the Royal Academy of Music at 
London, England, at the age of eighteen. At twenty-one he entered 
the Conservatory of Music at Leipsic, Germany. At the close of the 
first year, he was awarded a scholarship after a brilliant performance 
at the Abendunterhalting. He was made assistant to the famous 
Teichmueller where, in five and a half years, he made a record as a 
successful pedagogue. Among his pupils are several who are world 
renowned, including the celebrated Rudolph Breithoupt of Berlin, 
LeRoy Campbell, familiar to readers of the Etude, and others. 

In 1903, Lovette came to America, locating in Chicago, where 
he taught for a period of six years. On leaving Chicago, he became 
affiliated with Baylor College as Dean of Fine Arts, in which capacity 
he has served uninterruptedly for twelve years. The fact that Dr. 
Lovette has concentrated both thought and energy on the develop- 
ment of the Conservatory is no doubt responsible for its rapid ad- 
vancement. It is well known that the Conservatory of Music is one 
of the chief attractions at Baylor; in fact it has become recognized as 
the largest school of music connected with a college in America. With 
a man of Lovette's determination, wisdom, and skill guiding its pro- 
gress, the future of the Bavlor College Conservatory of Music is not 
only promising but unquestionable. 

Lovette possesses a happv combination seldom found, that of 
teacher and virtuoso. While he devotes the greater part of his time 
to the duties of the directorship, he allots a portion of the year to 
concert work. He is a brilliant, sympathetic performer and a tech- 
nician of authority. 




Mrs. Thomas S. Lovette 



Mrs. Eva Whitford Lovette, the wife of Dr. T. S. Lovette, is a 
native of Washington, D. C. As Eva Whitford, she was a successful 
concert and church singer in the nation's Capitol. Coming to Baylor 
College as the head of the Voice Department in 1909, she met and 
married Dr. Lovette, who came the same year as Dean. Mrs. Lov- 
ette proved to be an excellent teacher and heartily supported her hus- 
band in all his plans for the Conservatory. Mrs. Lovette resigned 
her position in the spring of 1916. 



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Short History of the Fine Arts 
Department 



Not until Baylor College was moved to Belton in 188 6, did the 
Fine Arts Department become a separate department having graded 
courses of study and granting diplomas. Prior to this time, instruc- 
tion in the rudiments of music, art and expression was given to the 
few students who wished to study these subjects. Professor J. Alleen 
Brown, with an assistant, gave lessons in music from 1878 to 1886. 
Professor McArdle taught drawing and painting and Miss Elli Moore 
gave instruction in expression. 

George H. Rowe and wife, Mrs. Hattie A. Rowe, both of Boston, 
Massachusetts, took charge of the music, Miss Maria Brown, of Bel- 
ton, the art, and Miss Julia Gray the expression department. Pro- 
fessor Rowe taught piano, voice, violin and harmony; his wife taught 
piano. The first diploma in piano was given in 1888 to Arta Bright 
of Olathe, Kansas, and the first diploma in art the same year to 
Georgia Blakely of Richmond, Texas. 

Baylor is deeply indebted to Professor Rowe for the splendid 
foundation which he laid for the present successful music depart- 
ment. An earnest student of music himself, he sought to instill into 
his pupils a love for the noblest forms of musical expression. He es- 
tablished a standard of excellence in a field of musical chaos and 
brought from the East the best musical talent available for concerts 
in the old chapel in Luther Hall. 

Diplomas in expression were granted first in 1896 to eight pu- 
pils. Miss Carrie B. Meade, who was teacher of expression that year, 
deserves special mention for the impetus the department received 
from her hands. 

After seven years, Professor Rowe resigned and Edward Luce 
served as Director of Music for two years and a half, Ferdinand 
Dewey finishing the term of 189 6. For two years following Raphael 
Koester was Director. In 18 98 Eugene E. Davis was elected to the 
position which he held for four years. Nathan Sacks of St. Louis 
was director one year. He was followed by Herman J. Bal of Ghent, 
Belgium, a brilliant pianist, who remained head of the department 
for four years. Dr. Hans Harthan succeeded Dr. Bal during the 
years 1907-08 and 1908-0 9. In the fall of 1909, Dr. Thomas S. 
Lovette, the present incumbent became Director. During the pasi 
twelve years the music faculty has been increased from seven to 
twenty-one members to accommodate the corresponding increase in 
the number of music students. The present matriculation of over 
five hundred students testifies to the high regard in which the Baylor 
College Conservatory of Music is held. 

It is worthy of note that not only has Dr. Lovette been Director 
(now Dean) for twelve years but three of the present teachers, Miss 

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Nita Wells, Miss Julia Belle James and Mrs. Hattie Woodruff Hillyer 
have been members of the music faculty for periods ranging from 
fifteen to twenty years. 

The departments of art and expression, while not so large as the 
Conservatory of Music, have served well in teaching hundreds of 
young women the beautiful and artistic modes of self expression. 
Miss Maria Brown rendered excellent service in the department of 
drawing and painting for eight years. She was followed by Miss 
Clara A. Bixby, who taught two years, Miss Maggie Buchanan, one 
year, '96, Miss Lillian Word from '97 to '01, Miss Bixby again for 
three years, Miss Maude Sallee, two years, Miss Isabel Thomas '07, 
'08, Miss Lillian Wells, three months, Miss Jane Gasparo, four years! 
Miss Alice E. Boyd, four years and Miss Ellen D. Stuart, two years. 

Most notable among the early teachers in the expression depart- 
ment were Miss Jessie Barrie '90 and '91, and Miss Carrie B. Meade 
'9 4, '95 and '96. Miss Aura Belle Herring, now Mrs. Latimer of Dal- 
las, during her eight years developed the department wonderfully. 
She was succeeded by Miss Sara Coleman '06, '07, '08, Miss Lucretia 
Carpenter, two years. Miss Sarah Parry three years, Miss Floyd 
Carpenter two years, Miss Sarah Parry three years, Miss Floyd 
years. 

In 18 8 6, only one room in the main building (Luther Hall) 
could be spared for the music department. This was the studio and 
business office of the director. Two studios and the practice rooms 
were located in two small cottages on the campus. Before the open- 
ing of the third term of school, the north wing of Luther Hall was 
added making ample room for the thriving music department in Mus- 
ic Hall. The present splendid art studio was also provided at that 
time. Later it became necessary to put partitions in the basement 
and thus create more practice rooms. 

The expression department in those days occupied what is now 
the south end of the main dining hall. When the Wilson Adminis- 
tration Building was finished in 1907, and the College and Academy 
Classes went there to recite, the music department sought more com- 
fortable quarters for her studios in the vacated rooms in the south 
hall of Luther. More growth of the department, however, called for 
more and more room until the present temporary practice hall was 
built two years ago. When the expression studio was taken into 
the dining room, that department was left without an abiding place 
for several years. Classes were held in the Society Hall, in the par- 
lors and in the teacher's bed room. Finally, the glassed-in porch 
gave temporary quarters to this department. The Fine Arts Depart- 
ment is necessarily large in a college for young women. Hence it is 
absolutely essential that such a college have the buildings necessary 
to accommodate these departments. They are important factors in 
the college and a Fine Arts Building has become an acute need. 



e three h u n cl r e cl and fifty-one 



A Fine Arts Building 



The wonderful growth and development of the Baylor College 
Conservatory of Music under the most trying and harassing conditions 
has been little short of marvelous. In spite of the fact that the teach- 
er's studios are located in dormitories; that many of them are 
cramped and uncomfortable; that the practice rooms have thin wails 
between in a light frame building, making the mingled sounds from 
many pianos a noise almost unendurable — in spite of these undesira- 
ble conditions, the students who desire the best instruction in music 
continue to flock to Baylor College. There are over five hundred 
students seeking to develop their musical tastes under a corps of com- 
petent teachers but unfortunately in a department with inadequate 
housing and equipment. The demands of the throngs of pupils 
makes a Fine Arts Building of suitable proportions an absolute ne- 
cessity. This building must offer facilities equal to the best to be 
found in any school of music in the land. 

One hundred practice rooms, twenty-five studios, lecture rooms, 
business offices, the music library, a reception hall and the music 
store must be in the Fine Arts Building. There should also be an 
auditorium with a seating capacity of four hundred. Two concert 
grand pianos and a pipe organ will make this hall adapted for re- 
cital use by the students and faculty. Such a building will cost not 
less than one hundred thousand dollars. Will not some friend of 
Baylor College, some lover of music who believes in its ennobling 
and purifying influence, give an amount that will make the erection 
of this building possible at once? What more joy could a man want 
than the consciousness that he has given needed help to an institu- 
tion like Baylor College and thereby been of direct blessing to many 
hundreds of young women? Look at wonderful Burt Hall, the gift 
of Mr. R. E. Burt, where two hundred beautiful, intelligent, earnest, 
ambitious girls are furnished happy living conditions while at school; 
and the equally wonderful Ruth Stribling Hall given by Mr. J. C. 
Stribling! Great men with great vision project their influence hun- 
dreds of years into the future by such gifts as these. By means of 
these buildings, unborn generations of young women will be enabled 
to develop the powers of heart and brain for noble service to humani- 
ty. The times call for great giving. Will God's great men and 
women answer the call? 



o 

Facts About Folks 

Mrs. Arta Bright Ekengren, piano, '88, is director of an Acade- 
my of Music located in Centralia, Washington. Mrs. Ekengren came 
to Baylor from Olathe, Kansas, in 18 86. After her graduation she 
taught piano and stringed instruments for several years. Later she 
did more advanced study in the East adding culture of her voice to her 
other accomplishments. Always a loyal lover of Baylor, she is send- 
ing frequent substantial contributions to the Endowment Fund. 

After her graduation in piano in '89, Mrs. Maud Harris Banton, 
spent some years in further study of music in the East. Later, she 
developed a beautiful voice and went to Italy, where she appeared 
in grand opera in Milan. Since the war Mrs. Banton has been coach- 
ing in New York City. 

Mrs. Florida Parrish Moyle has achieved a deserved success as 
a singer. She was graduated in voice at Baylor College in 1904. In 



Page three hundred and fifty-two 



1910 she spent two years in Europe where she sang in recitals in 
some of the principal European capitals and on her return in 1912 
made an extended tour of the Southern States. In 1914, she went to 
New York, where she continued to study and teach. In 1916, she 
was married to Gilbert Moyle of New York. Mrs. Moyle continues 
her professional work. Last spring she appeared in joint recital 
with Cadman, the composer-pianist. Mrs. Moyle's present home is 
in Berkeley, California. 

Reports come occasionally from Mrs. Amelia McGork Evans, a 
graduate in voice of 1909. For the past nine years Mrs. Evans has 
been in New York City, where she has done creditable work in con- 
cert and church singing. She is this season connected with the Mero- 
politan Opera Company. 

Miss Lucile Auten, graduate of piano and voice in '11 and '12, 
spent some time in New York studying under Klibansky and Prank 
La Forge. She has held several good school positions and is now 
doing splendid work as private teacher in Abilene, Texas. Miss Auten 
is organizer and director of the Abilene Glee Club. 

Miss Ethelyne Morgan, a graduate of piano and voice in 1917, 
spent the summer of '18 studying under Klibansky in New York, re- 
turning to Baylor as teacher in the fall, and here continued her study 
with Mrs. Lovette, her former teacher. She returned to New York 
in August, 1919, for further study. She was engaged as solist at 
Synagogue and later at the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn. She 
also appeared as solist at the Rivoli and Rialto Theatres and sang the 
principal role with civic Grand Opera Company. She is now a mem- 
ber of the faculty at Baylor. 

The soloist of the First Baptist Church at El Paso, Texas, is Miss 
Zula Sibley, a graduate and post graduate in voice from the Conserva- 
tory of Baylor College. While at Baylor she was in demand as so- 
loist and twice toured the State with the Choral Club. 

Miss Grace Wilson Monteith was a pupil of Dr. Bal, Dr. Harthan, 
and Dr Lovette at Baylor, and of Phillip Sarzigia of Washington, D. 
C, and of Mrs. Busch of Kansas City, Missouri. She did private 
teaching in Kansas City (also taught at Madison Hall Seminary and 
several years at Baylor. Mrs. Monteith is an accomplished musi- 
cian and successful teacher. Her home is now in Belton. 

Miss Leslie Ware, 1915, after several years successful teaching 
ir her home in Longview, was elected piano teacher on Baylor Music 
Faculty. Miss Ware is a brilliant pianist. She spent summer 1920 
studying with the celebrated Llevine in Chicago. 

Among the present piano teachers at Baylor are Miss Ruth Burr, 
'11 who had further study in Peabody Institute at Baltimore, and un- 
der Ernest Hutchison of New York; Miss Ruth Elinor Jeanes, '17, a 
brilliant pianist and able instructor, who studied under Ernest Hutch- 
ison in the summer of 1920;Miss Erna Priebisch and Verna McMahon, 
both of whom contiue to study with Dean Lovette in addition to their 
duties as teachers. 

Graduates in music who have held college positions successfully 
are Mrs Winnie Pledger Isbill, '13, Mrs. Loraine McCauley Little, '16, 
Miss Louise Hillyer, '14. Miss Mary Sams, '14. Miss Kate Vermillion 
'12, Mrs. Albert Walker Geddes '13, Mrs. Bessie Bobo White '16. 

Some successful musicians graduated by Baylor College are the 
following teachers who have spent many years in the profession: Miss 
Jessie Patterson, Franklin, Texas; Mrs. Eva Jennings Barnes, Plain - 
view, Texas; Mrs. Christie Smith Crews, Columbia, Texas; Mrs. Lizzie 
Hoiligan Dupree, Colorado, Texas; Miss Julia Tarver, Lott, Texas; Miss 
Nannie B. Ferguson, Waco, Texas; Mrs. Jessie Dockum Smith, Houston. 
Texas; Miss Hattie Hunt, Hamilton, Texas; Miss Laura Hiatt, Belton, 
Texas; Miss Mary Sherrill, Temple, Texas. 



Page three hundred and fifty -three 



Special Department Roster 
1886-1920 



^ 



Di\ George H. 
Rowe 



Miss Maria 
Brown 



Mrs. Hattie A. 
Rowe 




Georgia Blakel 
Smith '88 




Class of 189 0. 

1888. 

G. H. ROWE, DIRECTOR. 

PIANO. 

Arta (Bright) Ekengren Centralia, Wash. 

ART. 

Georgie (Blakely) Smith Houston, Texas 

1889. 
PIANO. 

Maud (Harris) Banton New York City 

ART. 

Fannie (Moore) Calby , Lawnsdale, Calif. 

1890. 
PIANO. 

Lula (Burger) Harris . „ Gatesville, Texas 

Leila (Fisher) Woodward Ninetah, Okla. 

Eula (Green) Lucas Mart, Texas 

Adele (Jennings) Williams Plainview, Texas 

Hattie (Woodruff) Hillyer Belton, Texas 



Page three hundred and fifty -four 



VOICE. 
Hattie (Woodruff) Hillyer Belton, Texas 

ART. 

Grace (Knudson) Rogers Reagan, Texas 

Mattie Moore Three Creeks, Ark. 

Pattie White Cuero, Texas 





A del la Quartette 
1886-91 



Pearl Pace 

Buchanan, 'III 



1891. 

PIANO. 
* Julia Boren 

Hattie (Denny Dallas Temple, Texas 

Bama (Harris) Hunter San Saba, Texas 

Annie (Hubbard) Bastrop, Texas 

Pearl (Pace) Buchanan Temple, Texas 

••" Jimmie (Patterson) Wilcox 

ART. 

Rose (Chamberlain) Coleman San Angelo, Texas 

Pearl Rucker Houston, Texas 

~ ;: ~ Bidie (Smith) Whitesides 

Lucy (Wilson) Rice Austin, Texas 





Lillie James 
Myer, '92 

Permilla Mitchell Libbie Woodruf; 

Cline, '92 Smith, '92 

1892. 

PIANO. 

Dena Cooper Corona, Calif. 

Mabel (Bolton) Sanders Wharton, Texas 

Lillie (James) Myer Belton, Texas 

Eva (Jennings) Barnes Plainview, Texas 

Permilla (Mitchell) Cline Belton, Texas 

Mabel (Oxsheer) Quinn Big Springs, Texas 

ART. 

Necie (Parker) Sneed Waco, Texas 

Libbie (Woodruff) Smith 2020 Garrett St., Dallas, Texas 

Lila (Keylich) Polk Killeen, Texas 

Nora (Jones) Jones Albany, Georgia 



Page three hundred and fifty-five 




Martha Dowell 
Maiden. '9 3 





Tennie Moore 
Wilie, '9 3 



Fannie Mitchell 
Rockwell '9 3 



1893. 

Christie (Smith) Crews Columbia, Texas 

Hester (Jackson) Starks Jacksboro, Texas 

Jessie Patterson Franklin, Texas 

Eula (Staton) McCelvey Temple, Texas 

Martha (Dowell) Maiden 214 E. 31 St., Kansas City, Mo. 

ART. 

Alice (Staton) Lee, (Mrs. Walter) Ft. Worth, Texas 

Maggie (Patterson) Mitchell Franklin, Texas 

Onie (De Berry) Chastain Douglas, Arizona 

Tennie (Moore) Wilie W T est, Texas 

Ella Murchison Lovelady, Texas 

Emma (Bushong) Morgan Memphis, Texas 

Dora (Ferguson) Street "Waco, Texas 

1894. 

EDWIN LUCE, DIRECTOR. 
PIANO. 

Florie Carswell Amery, Mississippi 

ART. 

* Dora Austin 

Agnes (Burger) McDonald Temple, Texas 

Rowena Parish Temple, Texas 

* Lucile (Harris) Davis 

Fannie (Mitchell) Rockwell St. Louis, Mo. 






Bonita Wells, '95 Maw Louis 

Liela McClelland * ^ , „ r 

Johnson, '9 5 ^ llson Parker, 9 5 

1895. 

PIANO. 

Sallie (Cox) Ricketts London, Eng. 

Annie (Delameter) JenKins Caldwell, Texas 

Alice (Davidson) Rigsbee ; Tulsa, Okla. 

Abbie (Ferguson) Hopgood Dallas, Texas 

Ada (Lee) Day Provo, Utah 



Page three hundred and fifty-six 



Leila (McClelland) Johnson Coleman, Texas 

Callie (Rose) Maddox Caddo, Okla. 

Lote (Sypert) Clark Wichita Palls, Texas 

Julia Tarver t j0U , Texas 

Bi .nita Wells Helton, Texas 

Mary Louis (Wilson) Parker Hereford, Texas 

Stella (Pierce) Bloomer Belton, Texas 





Mamie Dowell 
Ditto, '96 



Elma Keys 
Downs. '96 




Mrs. W. K. Saunders and daughters 

1896. 

FERDINAND DEWEY, DIRECTOR. 

PIANO. 
Pauline (Echlerle) Cummings Hearne, Texas 

* Florence Hiatt • 

Elma (Keys) Downs Temple, Texas 

Mrs. W. K. Saunders Belton, Texas 

VOICE. 

Annie (Delameter) Jenkins Caldwell, Texas 

Stella (Pierce) Bloomer Belton, Texas 

VIOLIN. 

Nannie B. Ferguson Waco, Texas 

Totsie (Pope) Pool Big Springs, Texas 

Evelyn Woodson Temple, Texas 

Dena Cooper Corona, Calif. 

ART. 
Lessie (Carswell) Hanptkamp Philadelphia, Pa. 

* Virgie Jones 

EXPRESSION. 

India (Bailey) Kerr San Antonio, Texas 

Mamie (Dowell) Ditto McKinney, Texas 

era (Ferguson) Street Waco, Texas 

* Lucie (Harris) Davis 

Biddie Jenkins . . . Caldwell, Texas 

Emma (Lott) Gilmount (Mrs. Arvid) .... Los Angeles, California 
Adeline O'Connor Houston, Texas 

* Mattie Beld (Spooner) Lewis 



Pa 



three hundred and fifty-seven 







L 1 ; 
\ J* W 

V / 

Mary D. McG-e-3 

McGregor, '9 7 ' > 4*' v 

Jessie Dockum 
Smith, '9 7 
1897. 

RAPHAEL. KOESTER, DIRECTOR. 

PIANO. 

* Mabel Austin 

Bertha (Corey) Cox Dallas, Texas 

Belle James Belton, Texas 

Mary D. (McGee) McGregor Dallas, Texas 

Julia Miller Walder, Texas 

Pauline (Moore) Harding Waco, Texas 

Lillian (Whiting) Miller Leaday, Texas 

VOICE. 

Nette (Carter) Tarver Houston, Texas 

Jessie (Dockum) Smith Houston, Texas 

Bertha (McArthur) Truax Caldwell, Texas 

ART. 

Anna Morris Austin, Texas 

Hattie (Smith) Ralston Cameron, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Mozelle (Hammond) Stainback Venus, Texas 






Tennie Moore Nelle Haynes Elma Keys 

Wilie, '98 Kay, '9 8 Downs, '9 8 

1898. 

EUGENE- E. DAViS, DIRECTOR 
PIANO. 

Mamie (Austin) Nichols Georgetown, Texas 

Edna (Forsythe) Parker .".' Kansas City, Mo. 

Nevada (McBride) Quisenbury Lebanon, Texas 

Lizzie (Halligan) Dupree Colorado, Texas 

Tennie (Moore) Wilie . . . .. . .. .. .................................... West, Texas 

Nelle (Haynes) Kay Dallas, Texas 

VOICE. 

Elma (Keys) Downs (Mrs. P. F.) ........... Temple, Texas 

Lottie (Pruit) Wilson Roswell, New Mex. 

Susie (Myer) Beery . .... Kansas City, Mo. 

Julia Smith Houston, Texas 

Jimmie Perry Rockdale, Texas 

ART. 

Lena (Chiles) Bell Oklahoma 

Amber (Mathis) Putman Somerville, Texas 



Pa 



three hundred and fifty -eight 



EXPRESSION. 

Bert Carter „ r „. 

Nevada (MeBride) Qmse'nburv Wellington, Texas 

Lottie (Pruit) Wilson " ' ' Lebanon ' Texas 

' vvuson Roswell, New Mex. 






Fannie Thomas, Belle Herring ^ nie Boy , d 

'" Lattimer ™?* T a "* 

mother, '9 9 

1899. 

PIANO. 

EUGENE E. DAVIS, DIRECTOR 

MRS. AURA BELLE HERRING LATTIMER, Expression Teacher 

PIANO. 

Emma (Crozier) Hunt Grapevine, Texas 

Gertrude Lane Man Texag 

Ma ry (Boyd) Allen Hearne> Texag 

Ella Saunders Dentonj Texag 

* Fannie Thomas 

Ethel Bettis ..............'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'..' Orange' 'Texas 

Inez (Johnson) Ashton, (Mrs. S. W.) Coleman] Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Annie (Boyd) Oliver Caldwell, Texas 

Florence Waggoner Dallas> Texag 

1900. 

PIANO. 

Maggie Butler Petersburg, Tenn. 

Sudie (Haley) Robinson San Antonio, Texas 

ART. 

Pearl Barfield Cheapside, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 
* Addie (Wilson) Gantt . . . 

Hattie Gillman i" '.' .*.\".' .' .' ." .',' .\.' .' .' .' ' Edna,' Texas^ 

Norma Harris Lampasas, Texas 






Pearl Davis 
Sewell '01 



Pearl (Davis) Sewell 
Mattie Upshaw 



Jule Mclver 
Wood, '01 

1901. 

PIANO. 



Florida Parrish 
Moyle, '01 



Coleman, Texas 
. . Belton, Texas 



Page three hundred and fifty-nine 



VOICE. 

* Luta (Barkley) Wah) 

Jule (Mclver) Wood Monticello, Ark. 

Florida (Pan-ish) Mo'yle 163 Leroy Ave., Berkeley, Cal. 

ART. 

Alice Matthews v Hearne, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Wilo Bee Talley Hartley, Texas 

Jewel Gilliam Italy, Texas 






Callie Davis 
St. Clair, '02 



Esther Boatwright 
Davis, '02 






Ruby Halbert, '02 





Margaret Hudnall Rosa Moffett 

Greenwood, '02 Baugh, '02 

1902. 

PIANO. 

Eleanor Bassett Richmond, Texas 

Esther (Boatwright) Davis, (Mrs. W. G.) Bryan, Texas 

Callie (Davis) St. Clair Dallas, Texas 

Pearl (Harvey) Grimes Midland, Texxs 

Jule (Mclver) Wood Monticello, Ark. 

Bettie Smith Coleman, Texas 

VOICE. 

* Rose White 

Tex (Adams) Carlyle • Kaufman, Texas 

Lizzie (Ghent) Mcintosh San Antonio, Texas 

Bessie (Sparks) Bogart Belton, Texas- 

EXPRESSION. 

Dixie (Forbes) Kemp Dumos, Texas 

Claude (Martin) Escavaille Ft. Worth, Texas 

Ruby Halbert Dallas, Texas 

Margaret (Hudnall) Greenwood Lampasas, Texas 

Hautye (Holley) Watson Indianapolis, Ind. 

Rosa (Moffett) Baugh Ballinger, Texas 

1903. 
NATHAN SACKS, DIRECTOR 

PIANO. 
Vinnie Boyd Belton, Texas 

VOICE. 
Blanche (McDaniel) Young Granger, Texas 



Page three hundred and sixty 



EXPRESSION. 

Laura McReynolds Beaumont, Texas 

Maud (Umphress) ...... Van Alstyne, Texas 

Kate (Higginbotham) Harvey DeLeon, Texas 

3 






Jessie Dowell 

Bryant, '04 • Alma Nigro, '04 Queen Colley, '04 

1904. 

HERMAN J. BAL, DIRECTOR. 
PIANO. 

Bettye (Murrell) Black Temple, Texas 

VOICE. 

Ora (Campbell) Bone Jennings, La. 

Jessie (Dowell) Bryant McKinney, Texas 

Marienne Croom Wharton, Texas 

Virginia (Hatcher) Mitchell Belton, Texas 

Alma Nigro Belton, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Queen Colley Italy, Texas 

Madeline Chaney Bonham, Texas 

Edna Mae Card Ft. Worth, Texas 

Laura Mae Croom 51 Myrtle Ave., El Paso, Texas 

1905. 
PIANO. 

Ruth Maggard Hale Center, Texas 

Edna (Bates) Berringer West, Texas 

Mabel Babbington! Coleman, Texas 

Flora Johns Austin, Texas 

Julie Bal San Antonio, Texas 

ART. 

Frankie (Broome) Cook Beaumont, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 
Mildred Mihills Houston, Texas 






Mildred Mihills 
'05 



Eula Sims 
McDonald, '06 



Maggie Herringtor. 
Trussell, '06 
1906. 
PIANO. 

Bessie (Crouch) Smith McKinney, Texas 

Grace (Wallis) Givens (Mrs. J. M.) . .127 Broadway, Ft. Worth, Texg.s 

VOICE. 

Mrs. J. S. Baggett San Antonio, Texas 

Grace (Wallis) Givens (Mrs. J. M.) Ft. Worth, Texas 



Page three hundred and sixty-on 



EXPRESSION. 

Rachel Carpenter Sour Lake, Texas 

Maud (Hanna) Blackwell, (Mrs. Lewis) Sweetwater, Texas 

Maggie (Herrington) Trussell Port Neches, Texas 

Mary (Mentz) Warren Tampico, Mexico 

LaLee (Rugeley) Ammerman Ft. Worth, Texas 

Eula (Sims) McDonald Markham, Texas 






^ , ti. 

Margaret Carrick Mabel Bassell Eddie Wilcox 

Jones, '07 Blanton, '08 Bush '08 

1907. 

PIANO. 

Anna Hughes California 

May (Connell) Mclnhery Houston, Texas 

* Mary (Richardson) Stuart 

Grace (Wilson) Monteith Belton, Texas 

VOICE. 

Louie Clymer Leonard, Texas 

ART. 

Vada (Bemus) Becil Galveston, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Ada May Hogan 1713 Camilla St., Ft. Worth, Texas 

Margaret (Carrick) Jones Belton, Texas 

Varina (Saunders) Tanner San Marcos, Texas 

Myrtle (Greene) Minke Care L. A. Kent, Burnet, Texas 

1908. 

HANS HARTHAN, DIRECTOR. 
PIANO. 

Rosyline (Anderson) Hoover Canyon City, Colo. 

* Mabel (Bassell) Blanton 

Nelle (Bates) Beeman Celina, Texas 

Willie Ponder Ft. Jessup, La. 

Louie Clymer Leonard, Texas 

Sudie (Jenkins) Garrett Caldwell, Texas 

Maggie (Kiersey) Woodruff Childress, Texas 

Lillian Black Temple, Texas 

Annie (Sparks) Morgan Belton, Texas 

Agnes (Stamper) Lee Corsicana, Texas 

Beryl (Smith) De Roulak Pasedena, Calif. 

Eddie (Wilcox) Bush, (Mrs. Fred) McKinney, Texas 

Gertrude (McCrary) Fickett, (Mrs. H. L.) Douglas, Ariz. 

VOICE. 

Maggie (Kiersey) Woodruff Childress, Texas 

Beryl (Smith De Roulak Pasadena, Calif. 

Jeannesse Wise Easterwood, La. 

ART. 

Lessie Jackson Oklahoma City, Okla. 

Ola (Jackson) Craine Kosse, Texas 

May Smiley Rosebud, Texas 

Agnes (Stamper) Lee Corsicana, Texas 



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EXPRESSION. 

Blanch Dameron Plainview, Texas 

Kathleen Ponder Ft. Jessup, Ala. 

Margaret (Stamper) Yarbrough Brownsville, Texas 

Dahlia (Caudell) Carson Shreveport, La. 



Ob 

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1909. 

PIANO. 

Mabel (Martin) Cook, (Mrs. H. F.) Pleasanton, Texas 

Evelyn (Embree) McCaleb Belton, Texas 

Jewell (Cole) Herndon Ft. Worth, Texas 

Lallah (Bog-art) Hudson Waco, Texas 

Eva McKinley Sulphur Springs, Texas 

Maybelle Brown Bowie, Texas 

Elfrieda Borgel Sealey, Texas 



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Jewel] Cole 
Herndon, '09 

VOICE. 

Laura (Smith) James Belton, Texas 

Amelia (McGork) Evans, (Mrs. Clarence P.) New York City 

Virginia (Frazier) Parry Buffalo, N. Y. 

Robbie (Dalton) Miller Cerrin, Texas 

Jewell (Cole) Herndon • Ft. Worth, Texas 

ART. 
Alice (Lucas) Plainfield New Barre, N. J. 

EXPRESSION. 
Mattie (Brackeen) Tubb Gordon, Texas 




Mrs. Mattie E. 
Taylor, '10 





Mrs. Emma 
Evans, '10 



Dr. Thomas S. Lovette 



1910. 

DR. T. S. LOVETTE, DIRECTOR. 

PIANO. 

Veda (Earp) Williams Dallas, Texas 

Maud Hoskins Baker St., Houston, Texas 

Blanche (Hawkins) Booth Globe, Arizona 

Frankie Joslyn Burnet, Texas 

* Bess (Smith) Strange • 

Mary Sherrill Temple, Texas 

VOICE. 

Florence Durrett Belton, Texas 

ART. 

Daisy Ray Belton, Texas 

Cora Ray Belton, Texas 

Annie D. Cox Temple, Texas 

Willie (Webb) Somerville, Texas 

Mrs. Mattie E. Taylor Seymour, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 
Mrs. Emma Evans Richland Springs, Texas 

* Balla (Greenwood) Wise 



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three hundred and sixty-four 






Lucile Auten, '11 



Joe Moore 
Howard, '11 



Esther McCord 
Terrell, '11 



1911. 

PIANO. 

Lucile Auten Abilene, Texas 

Ima Chadwick Chadwick, Texas 

Ruth Burr Houston, Texas 

Lena (Walker) Falvey Longview, Texas 

Frankie (Morris) • . . . Whitedeer, Texas 

Roberta Reed Belton, Texas 

Ethel (Wilson) Knorpp, (Mrs. Roger) Kansas City, Mo. 

John (Phipps) Ramage, (Mrs. J. T.) Temple, Texas 

VOICE. 

Dochia Harris Hastings, Okla. 

Laura Hiatt Belton, Texas 

Esther (Whitmire) Buchanan Belton, Texas 

Lillie (Ludwick) Lemm, (Mrs. Paul) Brenham, Texas 

ART. 

Joe (Moore) Howard, (Mrs. C. C.) Grace, Miss. 

Mary D. (Moore) Prideaux Brownfield, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Esther (McCord) Terrell, (Mrs. S. D.) Ranger, Texas 

Carrie (Turner) Russell Dallas, Texas 



1912. 

PIANO. 

May (Glass) Ray Belton, 

Sierra Hamilton Hemphill, 

Kate Vermillion 705 Duncan Ave., Stillwater, 

VOICE. 

Lucile Auten Abilene, 

Lillian (Dingle) Dixon, (Mrs. Fay) Freeport, 

ART. 

Lucretia (Ayers) Donnell Amarillo, 

EXPRESSION. 

Lucile Bains Brookshire, 

* Edna (Brown) Poole 

Winnie May Davis Sterling City, 

1913. 
PIANO. 

Winnie (Pledger) Isbill McGregor, 

Lela (Baker) Lawry Palestine, 

VOICE. 

Vesta (Cooper) Vineyard Amarillo, 

Albert (Walker) Gettys Decatur, 

ART. 

Myrtle Carlton Velasco, 

Susie (Cole) White Dallas, 

Pearl Manghum Belton, 

EXPRESSION. 
Nellie Bly Smith West, 



Texas 
Texas 
Okla. 

Texas 
Texas 

Texas 

Texas 

Texas 



Texas 
Texas 

Texas 
Texas 

Texas 
Texas 

Texas 

Texas 



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Susie Cole 
White, '13 



Louise Hillyer, '14 




'», 



Sara Whitfield 
Boyd, '14 




Ruth Dowell, '14 



Ada McQuary, '14 



1914. 

PIANO. 

Louise Hillyer Belton, Texas 

Mary Sams • Washington, D. C. 

Leslie Ware Longview, Texas 

Leona Wells Prosper, Texas 

VOICE. 

Ruth (Boyd) Hearne, Texas 

Lorena Keeter Chico, Texas 

ART. 

Edna (Swann) Durrett Ennis, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Ruth Dowell McKinney, Texas 

Loleat Ligon Llano, Texas 

Ada McQuary Rosebud, Texas 

Sara (Whitfield) Boyd • Dallas, Texas 

1915. 
PIANO. 

Bertha (Thompson) Nelson Calle Estado, 63 Tampico, Mexico 

VOICE. 

Ophelia (Donnell) Hodson Temple, Texas 

Mary Sams ,.' Washington, D. C. 

Juanita Gross New York City 

EXPRESSION. 

Grace Huddle Murchison, Texas 

Hattie Russell McGregor, Texas 

Sierra Hamilton Hemphill, Texas 



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Bydie Lee 

Whiteside, '10 



EUielyne 
Morgan, '17 



Bessie Bobo 
White, '16 



1916. 

PIANO. 

Bessie (Bobo) White Ft. Worth, Texas 

Loraine (McCauley) Little, (Mr. W. S.) Conway, Ark. 

Helen (McCaley) Dollins 1001 N. 5th St., Waco, Texas 

Bydie Lee Whiteside San Marcos, Texas 

Pauline (Lackner) Watter Houston, Texas 

Kathleen Root Killeen, Texas 

Esma (Stacy) Temple, Texas 

VOICE. 

Ruth Denman Paris, Texas 

Veda (Earp) Williams Dallas, Texas 

Vesta Taylor 102 E. Mulberry, San Antonio, Texas 

La Vera Pyle Belton, Texas 

Lorena Stockton Plainview, Texns 

ART. 

Mary Louise (Hawkins) de Grummond Temple, Texas 

Catherine Neathery Parmersville, Texas 

Lucile Patterson San Angelo, Texas 

Nevada Stuart • Bedais, Texas 

1917. 

PIANO. 

Ruth Elinor Jeanes Temple, Texas 

Ethelyn Morgan Memphis, Tenn. 

Thelma Routt Chappell Hill, Texas 

Rubie Wilson Eastland, Texas 

VOICE. 

Ethelyne Morgan Memphis, Tenn 

EXPRESSION. 

Chloe (Clem) Dallas, Texas 

Eunice Peterson Glencoe, Okla. 




Mary Helen 
Brown Talley, '18 





Lola Hunt, '18 



Zula Sibley, 'IS 



Riette Goodrich 
Jones, '18 



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1918. 

PIANO. 

Mittie (Arthur) Hemphill, Texas 

-Ada Browne Temple, Texas 

Mary Helen (Brown) Talley Temple, Texas 

Beatrice Giles Winchester, Texas 

Martha Goodwin Bryan, Texas 

Lola Hunt Hamilton, Texas 

Erna Preibisch Sealy, Texas 

VOICE. 

Ela Brand Hamlin, Texas 

Mary Helen (Brown) Talley Temple, Texas 

Martha Goodwin Bryan, Texas 

Zula Sibley El Paso, Texas 

VIOLIN. 

Jewell Routt Chappel Hill. Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Merle Blackwell Hochheim, Texas 

Gladys Byers Cleburne, Texas 

Maudames de Steiguer San Marcos, Texas 

Leona McCormick Midland, Texas 

Coraives Neville Henrietta, Texas 

ART. 

Ruth (Barber) Thayer Chicago, in. 

Riette Goodrich Jones Temple, Texas 

Maggie Lamb Oglesbee, Texas 

1919. 

PIANO. 

Verna McMahon Dewey ville, Texas 

ART. 

Lois Hogue Sweetwater, Texas 

1920. 

PIANO. 

Ruth Eleanor Preibisch Sealy, Texas 

Mary Christine Saling Marshall, Texas 

Virginia Elizabeth Wiley McKinney, Texas 

EXPRESSION. 

Helen Cleo Dawson Mission, Texas 

Arnette Watford Lufkin, Texas 

Helen Whitener Texarkana, Texas 

Maxie Herrington Huntington, Texas 

Ovilla Wood Hughes Springs, Texas 

Ida Mae Garner Galveston, Texas 

Theresa Duff Ranger, Texy s 

Myra Jarrell Belton, Texas 



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ERRATA 



Transpose names of Mrs. Jessie Dowell Bryant and Sadie Dowell 
King, page 82. Transpose Miss Kathryn Bowen and Mrs. Lula Bowen, 
page 139. 

The following names are printed incorrectly in some places: Dr. 
O. H. Cooper, Mrs. H. L. Kokernot, Mrs. Virginia Westbrook, Dr. Z. C. 
Taylor, Zemma Hare, Dr. T. V. Neal, Mrs. Bell Terry Elder, Annie 
Laurie Sykes, Mrs. Ebbie Higdon Ozburn, Mrs. Paulo Boracio Tooms. 
Mrs. Martha Schwinn Jordan, Mrs. Ella Yelvington Ely, Mrs. Lula Bow- 
en, Winnie Goodwin McCraw, Mr. Vann, Minnie Sauerman Gotten, Mrs. 
Swearingen. 

Incorrect dates: The Baptism of General Sam Houston took place 
inl854; Dr. and Mrs. Lovette were married in 1909; the fourth story 
was added to Luther Hall in 1914; the Cottage Home and the College 
were consolidated in 1915. 

The Heme Economics department has granted diplomas to the fol- 
lowing: Clara Peek, Beulah Stone, Sara Mcintosh Crook, and Earline 
Cochran. 

We d^ not pretend to correct apparent typographical errors. 



